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SELF HEALING 

THROUGH 

AUTOSUGGESTION 

CA5 7 
A 

By 

DR. C. F. WINBIGLER 



NEW YORK 

AMERICAN LIBRARY SERVICE 

1923 




Copyright, 1923 
American Library Service 


All rights reserved 




By the Same Author 


SUGGESTION, ITS LAWS AND APPLICATION 
HOW TO HELP AND HEAL OTHERS 
HOW TO HELP AND HEAL ONE’S SELF 
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, AND KINDRED SUB¬ 
JECTS: THEIR FACTS AND FALLACIES 




- 















TO 

ALL WHO DESIRE TO GET 
THE BEST OUT OF LIFE BY 
PUTTING THE BEST INTO IT. 









CONTENTS 


PAGE 


Preface.11 

Introduction.15 

Chapter I. Suggestion Defined and Classified. 21 

Chapter II. Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated.30 

Many Phases Considered * 


Chapter III. Conditions Necessary for Effective Autosuggestion . . 50 

(a). Relaxation 
( \b ). Attention 
(. c ). Brevity and Definiteness 

(d) . Repetition 

( e ) . The Best Time to Give Autosuggestion 


Chapter IV. Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied.59 

Chapter V. Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse 

Conditions.78 

Chapter VI. Personal Methods Proven Effective.98 

Chapter VII. Some Formulae for Typical Cases.in 

(1) . For Insomnia 

(2) . For Constipation 


(3) . For Sick-Headache, Nervous Pains, etc. 

(4) . For Nervousness, Impatience, Anger and 
Passion 

(5) . For Self-Consciousness, Bashfulness and Inde¬ 
cision. 

Chapter VIII. Summary and Conclusion.118 


9 































PREFACE 


Many books have presented certain phases of psy¬ 
chology and the number is increasing yearly which 
present particularly the theory and application of sug¬ 
gestion and Autosuggestion. 

My large work on Suggestion, which is now being 
published by the American Library Service, contains 
a discussion of the theory and practice of Suggestion 
in its many phases and relations. The student and 
reader will find it quite comprehensive. There has 
been a great demand for a Manual that will present 
a brief and workable statement of this comparatively 
new science and one that contains examples and forms 
of Suggestion which can be used or modified for indi¬ 
vidual needs. Technical terms and discussions must 
be avoided so that anyone can understand what is 
stated and be able to apply the instructions. The 
limitation of terms will of necessity require consider¬ 
able repetition. This is to some people very objection¬ 
able but with this science allowable and necessary. 
Repetition is the hammer that drives into the mind 
suggestions so that they may anchor and manifest in 
the life. Then, too, the endeavor to simplify the sub¬ 
ject so that everyone can understand and apply the 
principles, it is necessary to repeat certain words, 
phrases and thoughts. 


ll 


12 Preface 

If the instructions in this manual are strictly and 
persistently followed there is no reason why great and 
even remarkable effects may not be realized in the 
reader’s life. These instructions have been tested un¬ 
der many circumstances and they have proven effective 
in producing great changes, establishing normal in 
place of abnormal states and opening up possibilities 
for the unfolding of one’s personality. 

No one knows better, than the author, the imper¬ 
fections of this work, but honesty of purpose and a 
desire to help others justifies its publication. Its prac¬ 
tical instructions, easily understood, if carried out by 
all who read and study this book, will produce definite 
and beneficial results in the whole life. 

This work is founded on the principles of my larger 
work referred to above, ‘‘Suggestion: Its Law and 
Application, or The Principle and Practice of Psycho- 
Therapeutics.” Some thoughts in this book have been 
stated in other forms by other writers on this and 
similar subjects. In the large work referred to above 
I have specified numerous authors and they apply to 
this work also. I am indebted to many sources for 
special suggestions and ideas. We are all doing what 
we can to disseminate ideas that will make practical 
and helpful this new and wonderful teaching and prac¬ 
tice of Suggestion in its numerous phases. 

C. F. WINBIGLER. 

Los Angeles, California. 

1923 


SELF HEALING THROUGH 
AUTOSUGGESTION 





INTRODUCTION 


Suggestion is a new word that has been introduced 
into the psychological nomenclature in order to de¬ 
scribe and apply it to some of the newer phases of 
psychological principles. The word has been lifted up 
from its former meaning and has been given a fulness 
of meaning that is remarkable. It formerly carried 
the idea of an insinuation and not a good one; but now 
it carries the highest idea of insinuation and more 
than that because it is related to the imagination, the 
excitation of mental activity and the operation of the 
subconscious mind. 

The imagination is the picture-forming power of 
the mind, and mental impressions incite the mind into 
definite action so that the great principle underlying 
mental activity is this: “Every mental impression 
strives for expression and every mental picture strives 
for realization” This is the great law that governs 
all mental activity of value, of permanence, and of 
effectiveness. The application of this principle main¬ 
tains the health and restores it if lost; maintains man’s 
happiness as a manifestation of his essential life and 
leads to the realization of success and to all that 
makes for man’s development toward perfection. 

The law can be applied to every phase of man’s 
mental and spiritual unfoldment as well as to his 
15 


16 Introduction 

physical well-being and development and it is the law 
of all activity and accomplishment. Everything is 
governed by law in every realm of life so that there 
is no room for chance. It takes some people a long 
time to learn this truth. 

The two-fold division of Suggestion that will 
considered in this book is hetero-suggestion and Aut 
suggestion. The most effective and far reaching divi¬ 
sion is Autosuggestion. It makes effective or nullifies 
hetero-suggestion. Practically all hetero-suggestion 
becomes Autosuggestion before it becomes an effective 
power in the mind. 

There is a phase of mind that is particularly af¬ 
fected by suggestion. It is what is termed the sub¬ 
conscious. It has control over all the vital functions 
and organs of the body, and being controlled by sug¬ 
gestion, corresponding results will be realized in the 
body and its organs according to the kind of sug¬ 
gestions received and realized in that phase of mind. 

The author’s view is that there is but one mind 
manifesting in a two- or three-fold form. The terms 
now generally accepted by psychologists are conscious 
and subconscious. Those who desire to apply a term 
specifically to what is called the spirit and spiritual 
nature of man use a three-fold form of mind manifes¬ 
tation, the conscious, subconscious and the super or 
supra-conscious. In this work the two-fold form will 
be adhered to and used. 

It might be well to refer to what is called hypno¬ 
tism. The word itself is unfortunate for it means 
sleep. The state itself is a wide-awake condition of 


Introduction 


17 


the subconscious phase of mind. Many persons be¬ 
lieve that hypnotism is the result of a power exerted 
by one mind over another. This is not so. Hypno¬ 
tism is a receptive condition of mind which accepts 
suggestions given by another person or by one’s self. 
Tfee conscious phase of mind of the subject is held in 

0 ^ance and in that state either hetero- or Autosug¬ 
gestions pass unhindered into the subconscious phase 
of mind and incite it to action in order to produce 
the desired results. 

Many explanations of hypnotism have been given. 
Dr. James Braid of Manchester, England, inclined to 
the physiological explanation. He used for therapeu¬ 
tic purposes intentional Autosuggestion. By this 
method, by self-hypnotism, he cured himself of a 
severe case of rheumatism. It was the Autosugges¬ 
tion inciting the subconscious mind into action through 
the vital forces of the body that cured him and not 
hypnotism. 

Many of the ills to which the flesh is heir, ills that 
imaginatioii and expectation breed, are the results of 
unconscious Autosuggestion. Expectant Autosugges¬ 
tion is the very spirit of the faith that removes moun¬ 
tains, levels valleys and crosses oceans. 

The great healers, so-called, like Greatrakes, Gass- 
ner, Newton and others used suggestion and many of 
them secured some of their greatest results uncon¬ 
sciously. This is also true of great orators, surgeons, 
physicians, lawyers and other great men of the world, 

Bramwell, in his splendid work on Hypnotism, ad¬ 
mits that the essential characteristic of the hypnotic 


jg Introduction 

state is the subject’s power over his own organism. 
Some others, like Heidenhain, push the physiological 
theory of hypnotism to its limit, whilst Charcot and 
his school contend for the hystero-epilepsy theory as 
an explanation of hypnotism. Liebault and Bernheim, 
of the Nancy School, accepted the theory of sugges¬ 
tion as an explanation of hypnotism and also as an 
explanation of the cures effected. This is the most 
practical and reasonable theory and thus far takes in 
and explains the greatest number of facts of a psycho¬ 
logical nature. It is the theory that is generally 
accepted by men who are working along special 
psychological lines. Expectation and anticipation are 
factors that prepare the mind to receive the suggestion 
given. 

The factors that nullify hetero- and Autosuggestion 
are the conscious phase of mind and the imagination. 
They give or make counter suggestions. If our think¬ 
ing and mental pictures are true, we get beneficial 
results. If they are untrue, we destroy in a large 
measure the good suggestions given. The condition 
of the mind will determine the result. “As a man 
thinketh in his mind, so is he.” 

The greatest results and the most remarkable 
phenomena of suggestion occur in the realm of the 
subconscious. The control and exercise of the sub¬ 
conscious mind releases certain forces or powers 
through suggestion in its two-fold form. This is well 
understood by persons who are using suggestion ef¬ 
fectively in changing the mental and physical condi¬ 
tions of persons who need help. Freud and other 


Introduction 19 

psycho-analysts and psychologists are working in the 
realm of the subconscious. 

The principles announced above apply to education 
as well as to therapeutics. Educators recognize that 
education, good or bad, is the result of conscious or 
unconscious suggestions. The work carried on the sub¬ 
ject’s subconsciousness will either assist or hinder the 
suggestions and instructions by the teachers and will 
lead to victory or defeat of their work. 

The newer methods of education recognize this and 
the teachers plan to appeal to the subconscious and 
call into action the power of Autosuggestion of the 
pupil’s mind. The Montesori and other methods are 
doing this and that is why they are so effective. 

The theories of the past were defective in this re¬ 
spect. This is true also in reference to the explanation 
of extraordinary phenomena. The key that unlocks 
the door to that realm of mystery is suggestion in its 
many phases of the subconscious mind and its powers. 
(For a full discussion of this phenomena the reader is 
referred to my large work on “Suggestion: Its Law 
and Application.”) 

There are multitudes of people who can testify to 
the beneficial effect of hetero- and Autosuggestion. 
All functional disturbances and many organic condi¬ 
tions can be modified and permanently relieved espe¬ 
cially by Autosuggestion. 

Some writers seem to confuse suggestion with the 
will. They are distinct factors of the mental life. 
Autosuggestion is a power in itself, as is the will, and 
each may operate without the aid of the other. The 


20 


Introduction 


former is more powerful in accomplishing results with¬ 
out the will activity. Autosuggestion is a definite and 
effective method of influencing the subconscious mind 
and setting it in operation to accomplish and realize 
a definite result. It can awaken dormant energies and 
make them kinetic. 

It is necessary now to state clearly the meaning of 
suggestion and Autosuggestion so that the reader may 
use them, if he desires, for therapeutic, social and 
personal benefits. This will be done in succeeding 
chapters. 



CHAPTER I 


Suggestion Defined and Classified 

Different definitions of the word Suggestion have 
been given by writers and psychologists. None of 
them have been quite comprehensive enough to take in 
a complete view of the theory and practice. 

One definition is that Suggestion is an idea (repre¬ 
sentation), image and concept proposed or imposed 
by the operator and it is accepted by the mind of the 
subject. This idea, image or concept is transformed 
into an action so that the object of the idea is realized. 

This is one of the best of the many definitions 
given. Two of the essential elements of a true and 
comprehensive definition occur in it. (1) That sug¬ 
gestion is an idea (representation), image and con¬ 
cept. (2) That the idea is transformed into action. 
Many other definitions lack these two elements that 
are necessary and essential to a definition that will 
satisfy the mind of a thinker and an investigator of 
psychical phenomena. 

Many persons, and some writers on this subject, 
seem to believe that the operator exerts a peculiar 
power of his will so as to compel the subject to re¬ 
ceive what he suggests and do what he commands. 
These persons doubtless believe that hypnotism is the 
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22 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

result of the action of the operator’s will on the mind 
of the subject. This is not correct. The definition 
given above puts in a qualifying term or phrase which 
is necessary to be understood; namely, “Accepted by 
the mind of the subject.” No effect will occur unless 
the mind of the subject concurs in or accepts the sug¬ 
gestion of the operator. 

Impressions or sensations carried through the 
peripheral nerves to the brain start some automatic 
centers into action and when suggestions are made 
the mind through the brain and nervous systems sets 
into operation certain vital forces and corresponding 
results follow. This is conditioned on the mind of 
the subject acting on the ideas received. 

Another definition of suggestion is that “it is a 
mental impression.” That is true but it is more than 
that. 

Some writers make suggestion synonymous with 
hypnotism. This is not correct. It may produce an 
hypnotic effect but it is a larger term than hypnotism 
and its application is much wider. Hypnotism is one 
form or phase of suggestion as we shall see in the 
classification to follow. It is the result of suggestion. 
Let me repeat that hypnotism is not produced by the 
action of the will of the operator on the mind of the 
subject but it is a suggestible condition produced by 
the conscious phase of mind being quiescent or held in 
abeyance. This condition permits suggestion to reach 
the subconscious mind, which carries it out, and se¬ 
cures results in the physical, mental and psychical life. 

Many of the definitions have an element of truth 


Suggestion Defined and Classified 23 

in them but they lack other elements that are neces¬ 
sary to make a complete working definition. 

The definition that follows is one that the author 
has worked out as a result of his study and investi¬ 
gation of this subject. The reader can judge of its 
comprehensiveness and application to the subject in 
hand. 

This definition is partially based on the etymology 
of the word and incorporates the real elements of the 
application of suggestion in its wide purpose. The 
word is derived from sub, under, and gero f to bring, 
and therefore means to bring under . 

Suggestion Defined. 

Suggestion is an idea or ideas brought into the mind 
under other ideas that are there in order to supplant, 
suppress, or enforce them y or to create new ideas and 
to incite the mind into action and realization. 

There are two methods—there are many more—of 
bringing ideas into the mind. They are hetero- and 
Autosuggestion. The former is given by others. 
One’s own conscious mind may get an idea or ideas 
from reading, observation, reasoning or sensation 
which may lodge in the subconscious mind and work 
a great change in the ideas that are there, or one may 
make definite suggestions to himself, which may be 
accepted by the subconscious mind, and a great change 
may occur in the body or mental life. That is Auto¬ 
suggestion. 

This definition is founded on and grounded in a 
psychological law generally accepted but stated some- 


24 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

what differently by different writers. The author’s 
statement of this law is original with him, as is the 
definition of suggestion, and it has been used in the 
form stated here for many years in his lectures. The 
law is this: “Every mental impression strives for ex - 
pression y every mental picture strives for realization. 

This is a fundamental law of all mental activity and 
life and it enters into all of the practical work in rela¬ 
tion to the use effectively of suggestion in its wide 
application. 

If the reader will think through the definition 
given and the law stated above, as he has practical 
experience, he will see the definite and far-reaching 
application of suggestion to the many phases of life. 
Especially is this true in its application to health and 
its maintenance; to healing and its almost miraculous 
results; to happiness and its realization; to success 
and its resu'ts; to education and its cumulative power 
and to many other phases of life’s manifestations and 
possibilities. 

It will be a help to the reader and student to 
memorize the definition of suggestion and the ac¬ 
companying law and watch how they work out and 
how they apply to the many phases of life. 

Classification of Suggestion. 

The author has sought for many years in reading, 
conversation and by experimenting, a practical classi¬ 
fication of suggestion. A number of authors have 
given a few classes but they are very meagre and 
primary. The classification given here is original and 


Suggestion Defined and Classified 25 

in many respects the only comprehensive one that has 
thus far been attempted to my knowledge. Such a 
classification is needed so that when one meets certain 
results that have been produced by suggestion he may 
know to what class it belongs. It will also show the 
reader and any practitioner how wide and great sug¬ 
gestion is in its application to every sphere and phase 
of knowledge, experience and activity. 

1. Ordinary. This form of suggestion is used in¬ 
tentionally, consciously or unconsciously, in life’s gen¬ 
eral relations; e.g., in the home, in society, in busi¬ 
ness, in the school, in the church and wherever people 
meet and communicate with each other. 

2. Hypnotic. This phase of suggestion is one that 
is made to a naturally or an induced quiescent and 
receptive state of mind by word, written or oral, by 
gesture, look or touch, or by any feasible way of 
communication. The subject is in an hypnotic state 
or condition. 

(Hypnosis is the result of some form of suggestion 
and it is a condition in which suggestion is most 
effectively used.) 

3. Direct suggestion primarily applies to two minds 
in a subjective state and communicating directly with 
each other. This is the condition in a large measure 
in telepathic communication and in many so-called oc¬ 
cult and supernatural phenomena as in Revelation, 
prophesying, discovering hidden things and all that is 
genuine in the marvelous. It has come to mean by 
use that which is given by the conscious mind to the 
subconscious as in hetero- and Autosuggestion. 


26 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

4. Indirect suggestion is that which is communicated 
by the conscious mind of one person, through the 
senses, to the subconscious mind of another; e.g., the 
orator and the hypnotist illustrate this phase. 

5. Ante-hypnotic. This phase prepares the way 
for hypnosis. 

6. Post-hypnotic suggestion takes effect after the 
subject, who has been hypnotized, has been aroused or 
comes out of sleep. It may take effect immediately or 
sometime after awakening; e.g., if the operator sug¬ 
gests that at four o’clock the subject will go to the 
bookcase and take out a book or that next Wednesday 
he will come to this office at three o’clock, these things 
will probably be carried out to the letter. This is a 
form of suggestion used by many healers and by those 
who practice Suggestive Therapeutics. Tests made by 
the use of this phase of suggestion have proven that it 
may last or operate for one year but not much longer. 
Moll and Liebault and others seem to agree on this. 
When it is not carried out the idea may remain and 
torment the subject. 

7. Larvated suggestion is that which is concealed cr 
masked. An external or intermediary substance or ob¬ 
ject is used and a belief in its virtue will cause the sub¬ 
conscious mind to accept the suggestion given and 
make it effective. Placebos, sugar of milk, powdered 
pop-corn and many other harmless things are used by 
physicians. They tell the patient that they are power¬ 
ful drugs which will deaden pain, produce sleep, cor¬ 
rect abnormal conditions and restore the health. Cer¬ 
tain beneficial results often follow the use of larvated 


Suggestion Defined and Classified 27 

suggestion and it is far less harmful than the use of 
the drugs. 

8. Autosuggestion is given by one’s conscious mind 
to his subconscious mind. It is the most powerful 
form and can produce wonderful results in the body 
and in the mental life. Many people could bring about 
great changes in their feelings, thinking and ailments 
by the use of this form of suggestion. In the body 
of this book will be given certain statements, methods 
arid preparations necessary for effective Autosugges¬ 
tion. It is a great protection, a remarkable remedial 
agency and a wonderful transforming power in one’s 
life. Sickness can be cured, disease can be conquered, 
and remarkable development can be secured by its use. 

9. Hetero-suggestion is that which is given by one 
person to another person. The purpose of its use is 
to help those who are ailing; to overcome adverse and 
abnormal states and to overcome conditions unfavor¬ 
able to a patient’s or subject’s best interests. 

10. Sensory suggestion is that which is given or re¬ 
ceived through the senses. Subsidiary divisions of 
this general class are optical, auditory, tactile, olfac¬ 
tory and gustatory. Sensory suggestion enters into 
much of the dream life as well as into the most of 
the waking state. The ordinary laws of memory may 
be called into action under its influence. It also largely 
influences in establishing good or bad habits. Periph¬ 
eral stimulus, music, odors, tastes, sights and scenery, 
with the law of association, in the waking or dreaming 
state make up a large part of mental activity, influence 
and power in the life. 


28 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

11. Ideational or psychical is that which manifests 
in extraordinary phenomena; e.g., in spiritism, in 
mental phases of hysteria, in abnormal sexual states, 
etc. The extraordinary cases of devotion, reveries, 
mysticism, etc., come under this class. 

12. Imaginary is suggestion in which the imagina¬ 
tion plays a large part and it includes memory pic¬ 
tures. Its abnormal manifestations have an element 
of the neurotic in it. Some of the great geniuses of 
the world have been controlled by this form of sug¬ 
gestion, such as Blake, Swedenborg, Goethe, Poe and 
many others. Robert Louis Stevenson secured much 
material for his romances through imaginary sugges¬ 
tion and dream representation. Wagner heard in 
imagination the wonderful messages which he worked 
out so remarkably in his musical compositions. Con¬ 
nected with this, and often produced by it, is pscho- 
sexual hyperaesthesia. Religious beliefs and practices 
among savages and semi-civilized peoples are con¬ 
trolled in a measure by this form of suggestion. The 
night-men and night-women of Western Asia and the 
ghosts of those people and others are the products of 
imaginary suggestion. 

13. Narcotic suggestion is largely sensory but in 
order to classify the drug features we include this also 
as a class. Narcotics like alcohol, opium, Indian 
Hemp, etc., have the power to induce a state that is 
favorable for the acceptance of hetero- or Autosug¬ 
gestion and in certain stages of the narcotized sub¬ 
ject’s experience he produces his finest work. De- 


Suggestion Defined and Classified 29 

Quincey, Coleridge, Poe, and many others illustrate 
what is meant by the above statement. Orientals use 
Indian Hemp to induce a condition of mental reverie 
and libidinous thought and dreams. 

14. Mental suggestion is that which is given with¬ 
out audible speech. It might properly be called tele¬ 
pathic. The operator or healer formulates the sug¬ 
gestion in his mind and then repeats it mentally with 
the determination that the subject or patient shall be 
mentally impressed or influenced by it. This is the 
method with several leading cults and mental healers. 
Frequently a denial of the sickness or ailment is 
mentally held in the mind of the operator or healer 
and the expectant mental condition of the subject and 
his receptive attitude of mind brings to pass a cure. 
The author has used this form of suggestion very 
effectively many times. 

15. Verbal suggestion is that which is given by 
means of the spoken word and is the most common. 

If the reader will observe, experiment and classify 
things that he reads, hears and does, he will be sur¬ 
prised how this classification will make clear many 
things to him. 

One object that the author has in mind in giving 
this classification is to show the reader and student 
how far-reaching this law of suggestion is in its appli¬ 
cation and how it enters into all thinking, feeling and 
action. 


CHAPTER II 


Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 

MANY PHASES CONSIDERED 

Reference was made to Autosuggestion under the 
classification and a certain phase of definition was 
given but in this chapter it will be my purpose to define 
this more fully and to illustrate its use. 

Autosuggestion is self-suggestion and therefore may 
be looked upon as talking to one’s self and command¬ 
ing or demanding what one wants to realize in the 
whole personality or in any part of it. 

Any persons who have tried out Autosuggestion, 
when they were in a proper state of mind and body, 
will accept the statement that it is a most effective 
method of changing adverse and abnormal conditions 
and will assist in establishing a normal or healthy 
condition of mind and body. If one desires to secure 
the realization of the highest ideals spiritually, men¬ 
tally and physically, and if he will devote an hour 
each day systematically to a definite application of 
Autosuggestion, and by calling up pleasant ideas and 
memories; by summoning into the mind the finer feel¬ 
ings of love and unselfishness and will meditate on 
them, he will be surprised at the end of a month at the 
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Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 31 

change that will be wrought in his whole personality. 
Healthful cells will be developed in the body, poisoned 
and dead ones will be eliminated; the mental attitude 
and feelings will be changed for the better and the 
spiritual outlook will be brightened. He will be re¬ 
newed in body, mind and spiritual nature. These 
statements will be made plain when we present the 
application of suggestion and Autosuggestion. 

This is a good place to present a little psychology 
so that the reader may see the reason for some of the 
statements made above. The generally accepted theory 
of the mind as to its manifestation is that it is two¬ 
fold—conscious and subconscious. The former is at 
work in our waking hours but the latter continues its 
activity awake or asleep. The former is governed by 
the senses and what is brought into the mind through 
them and by the reason, a power possessed by all 
normally constituted minds. Our actions are governed 
by this knowledge and as long as we are in the present 
environment it is best that this should be so. The 
subconscious phase of mind is controlled by sugges¬ 
tions that come into it, and it controls all the vital 
functions and organs of the body. If suggestions 
that are hopeful, optimistic and healthful enter and 
control that phase of mind, then there will be a cor¬ 
responding state of the personality in that manifesta¬ 
tion. If the opposite kind of suggestions enter and 
control, then there will be an abnormal and unhealthy 
condition manifested. This is true if the suggestions 
are intentional or unconscious. Autosuggestion is the 
most powerful form of getting ideas into the subcon- 


32 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

scious mind. There is scarcely a limit to its power 
when all conditions are favorable to its reception. 

The value and effectiveness of Autosuggestion de¬ 
pend in a measure on the kind and the quality of the 
ideas. The growing knowledge of the mind and the 
utilization and results of suggestion are astonishing 
the students of psychology and these things are re¬ 
vealing possibilities never dreamed of by the most 
advanced students of that science. Physiological pro¬ 
cesses can be augmented or decreased, philosophical 
truths can be imparted and anchored in the mind, great 
psychic knowledge can be called forth and utilized 
and the whole personality can be brought forth into 
marvelous expression. 

The more graphic, incisive and definite the Auto- 
suggestions are the quicker will be the results. Defi¬ 
niteness accompanied with intention of realization will 
bring speedy and permanent consequences. 

There is no method for securing self-help, for re¬ 
covery of the health, for paving the sure way to suc¬ 
cess, for unfolding the inner life, for utilizing the 
great powers of the mind, for releasing the hidden 
forces of one’s nature and for securing what one de¬ 
sires like definite, graphic Autosuggestion. 

Many ideas seem to have dynamic influence in the 
mind and their transformation into action, aside from 
their reception, cause the mind to commence its 
operation at once to realize them. Hence the idea of 
an organic change can produce that change in the in* 
dividual who thinks that idea. The action of an idea 
may at times be more potent in a subject who is hyp* 


Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 33 

notized. The reason is that the added confirmation 
of the individual’s mind gives approval and unhindered 
working opportunity for realization. Autosuggestion 
is the prototype of all suggestion. There is a popular 
belief that the suggestion of another person carries 
with it something of the conscious power of that per¬ 
son as a starting point. There is no particular reason 
for this assumption. Suggestion is not subjecting an 
individual but it is bringing freedom to him in the 
fullest sense. 

The realization of an idea is brought about by sub¬ 
conscious activity and becomes effective often without 
the subject being conscious of it. For instance, the 
idea of a cure for certain ailments is suggested by an¬ 
other or by one’s self and the mind sets into operations 
the vital forces which will produce that result and the 
cure is effected without the subject knowing how it 
was done. This is especially true in involuntary Auto¬ 
suggestion in which there is an unconsciousness that 
distinguishes that action from an ordinary act of the 
will. Suggestion becomes the subconscious realization 
of an idea which corresponds with the final statement 
in the definition of that word. 

The mind is incited to action, the consequence of 
which action is, the realization of a definite result. 

There are two things to be considered in hetero¬ 
suggestion. 1. The personal influence of the operator. 
2. The subject’s regard for the operator. The rela¬ 
tion may be one of love or fear or a cornbination of 
both. In Autosuggestion there is the definite dealing 
with one’s self. Outside influences are shut out and 


34 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

the person is in a quiet, receptive condition. Many re¬ 
markable effects are produced. Ideas have a tendency 
to realize themselves involuntarily when they are 
lodged in the subconscious mind. They seem to have 
an inherent force that when the mind receives them 
it immediately proceeds to carry them out and realize 
the results. The mind and ideas produce action and 
realization. Suggestion thus becomes a natural force 
in the human life and the reflex action leads to definite 
results mentally. Suggestion then becomes an instru¬ 
ment of self-mastery and self-development. This 
mental action can be set into operation by one’s self 
and thus one can master adverse conditions and can 
maintain himself in good health. It is a well-under¬ 
stood principle in psychology that an idea, with at¬ 
tention concentrated on it, tends to realize itself. It 
is not so well understood that there is involuntary as 
well as voluntary suggestion. Some very astonishing 
results follow from the use of the former but the most 
remarkable results follow the use of the latter. The 
voluntary phase presupposes intention and conscious 
effort and those characteristics and powers reinforce 
that kind of suggestion and that is the reason why the 
results are greater and more wonderful. Autosugges¬ 
tion has its great effect when it gets into the subcon¬ 
scious mind with very little or any conscious effort. 
Conscious effort seems to hinder rather than help in 
that respect. 

In using Autosuggestion we want to produce a modi¬ 
fication of a condition or maintain what we have. We 
desire a realization which is produced unconsciously 


Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 35 

as far as ourself is concerned. When we use the will 
we call to our assistance intention, but this is absent 
from involuntary suggestion. The latter is habitual 
but the voluntary is cultivated and developed. Auto¬ 
suggestion has almost unlimited power. If it works 
involuntarily, without rational guidance, serious conse¬ 
quences may and do often follow. Many ailments 
arise from this cause alone. Morbid phenomena may 
and often do occur. Maladies may be aggravated and 
the reason why may not be understood. Repressions 
may occur and mischievous results may be produced. 
Involuntary suggestion has been really responsible for 
many things not easily understood. 

The starting point of a number of conditions mani¬ 
festing in the mind is involuntary suggestion. Fascina¬ 
tion, obsession, fixed ideas, special phenomena, and 
many other conditions begin with it. The only way 
to break their power and free the mind from its 
thraldom is to use Autosuggestion or very powerful 
and graphic hetero-suggestion. 

Neurasthenia, so prevalent today, is like a man 
getting into deep water, the more he struggles to get 
out the deeper he goes. If the Autosuggestion of 
helplessness can be removed the subject will be started 
on the way to recovery. As long as the idea of help¬ 
lessness continues fully he will go downward. 

Autosuggestion has a three-fold manifestation and 
application. 

1. To what might be termed the intellectual side of 
the mind. Sensations, visualizations, dreams, mem¬ 
ories and thinking processes come under this head. 


36 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

2. To the sensibilities. Joy ana sorrow, all the 
emotions, passions and sentiments belong to this class. 

3. To the will side of the mind belong volitions, 
actions, desires, movements of the internal organs and 
viscera of the body and functional modifications. It 
is amazing what modifications and actual readjust¬ 
ments can be produced by definite suggestion under 
favorable conditions. Involuntary suggestion is at 
work in all of these domains. The mental image of an 
idea makes it a force in action as the idea or mental 
image of a movement produces a movement. The 
image or idea is subjective. The result may be ob¬ 
jective. For instance, think of sucking a lemon and 
your teeth are set on edge as though you actually 
were doing this. Imagine some one yawning and that 
action is aroused in you. You are expecting company 
and you may seemingly hear the door bell ring before 
it actually does so. 

Suggestion can create images in every phase of life 
and it can produce favorable or unfavorable condi¬ 
tions. This is the reason that it has such a marvelous 
power. 

Sensations can be transformed into hallucinations, 
and mental images can be transformed into illusions, 
and volitions can be transformed into delusions and 
transferences. Suggestion may induce as well as in¬ 
hibit a sensation or a movement. 

There is a remarkably susceptible condition in the 
minds of some people. The idea of pleasure or pain 
becomes an actual experience to them. Some people 
cannot hear of suffering without feeling the very thing 


Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 37 

heard of. Thinking of it seems to anchor it in the 
mind and manifest it in the body. If they think of 
twelve o’clock, hunger for lunch is immediately 
aroused. Students in medicine when they first study 
about symptoms of certain diseases develop the feeling 
of those symptoms in themselves. Patent medicine ads 
have a great appeal to many persons, for the graphic 
presentation of conditions seem to awaken their 
thoughts so remarkably that they believe that their 
case is actually described. Wonderful visions have 
led martyrs to endure and not to feel their sufferings 
keenly. Cold and heat, fatigue and pain, joy and 
sorrow can be wonderfully modified by suggestion and 
by Autosuggestion can be actually changed. There 
are two very important factors in suggestion that have 
an immediate effect. They are emotion and attention. 
Where these are called into play or action often most 
remarkable results are obtained. There is spon« 
taneous emotion which manifests itself under the law 
of memory association which has to be reckoned with. 
Whilst attention is more or less voluntary yet there 
is also a spontaneous phase of it that can be called 
into action. There is one great power of the mind 
that has a most remarkable influence on the whole 
personality, that is, the power to visualize, and in the 
subconscious phase of mind it is the spontaneous power 
of imagery. There is one term used for both phases 
and that is imagination. We have never yet put it 
into proper relation to the intellectual, affectional and 
volitional manifestation of the psychical and physical 
life. In this popular treatise on this subject it is not 


38 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

my purpose to present too much psychology but such 
phases as will make plain and practical the use of 
suggestion and Autosuggestion in their application to 
the development, control and self-recovery of the 
mental, moral and physical life. 

The spontaneous phase of imagination has its seat 
of power in the subconscious mind and its voluntary 
visualizing power in the conscious mind. There is 
something that one wants to do but there is a picture 
in his mind that he cannot do it and as long as it is 
held it will nullify his will power and he cannot do 
what he wants to do. If the picture can be changed, 
and it can be by Autosuggestion, he can make, hold 
and realize that picture and line it up with the will, 
then he will do easily and remarkably well what he 
desires to do. When I was learning to ride a bicycle 
I would start off and go for a few minutes like an old 
rider but when I allowed the picture of tumbling off 
to come into my mind it was not long until I either 
had to get off or fall off. When I was a boy in com¬ 
pany with another boy I was crossing a creek of water 
on a narrow plank. He had crossed and called to me 
to come on. I said, “I don’t know about it.” I started 
and when I did a picture of falling off into the water 
took possession of my mind and off I went. The will 
to go over was nullified by the picture of falling off. 

Many persons have tried to voluntarily put them¬ 
selves to sleep and the more they tried the more awake 
they became. If they had formed in the mind, when 
thoroughly relaxed in body, a picture of being very 
sleepy and had said to themselves quietly or audibly I 


'Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 39 

will go to sleep and kept that up for a while they 
would have gone to sleep. 

This is also true in reference to recalling an incident 
or name, if you will quit trying to do so and let the 
spontaneous imagination alone it will bring into the 
mind just what you want. The picture power of the 
mind or visualization is one of the greatest, if not the 
greatest power in producing health or disease, joy or 
sorrow, success or failure, happiness or misery. The 
pictures which you hold in your mind will determine 
largely your condition of health or disease, success or 
failure. 

When a person sees failure he will realize it even 
though he may desire success. A man who drinks 
liquor and declares that he will not drink again often 
sees a picture in his mind that he cannot quit and when 
that is so he cannot and will not. There are certain 
persons, like thieves, criminals, and persons who have 
certain habits, who will say that they cannot help do¬ 
ing those things that are wrong, that something im¬ 
pelled them. The picture in their minds overpowered 
their wills and they were pushed on. The only way 
to overcome those tendencies and be master is to line 
up the imagination and will together and thus secure 
multiplied power. Here is the principle: Every mental 
impression strives for expression and every mental 
picture strives for realization . Autosuggestion is the 
great mental factor by which we direct the imagina¬ 
tion so that it will connect up with other great forces 
in our natures and thus secure health, healing, happi¬ 
ness and success in life. 


40 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

We are continually giving ourselves suggestion. 
Even those from others are turned into Autosugges¬ 
tion before they can be utilized by us. This is going 
on all the time by virtue of our mental, moral and 
physical endowment. We are made so that we are 
subjects of suggestion and it is well that we are. A 
man that is not is a nonentity and only an animal 
and not a good one at that. All good animals are 
amenable to certain forms of suggestion. 

I have defined, discussed briefly and illustrated Auto¬ 
suggestion and I will outline the same. 

1. Autosuggestion is talking to one’s self for a 
definite purpose. 

2. Effective, helpful talking to one’s self is de¬ 
pendent on certain conditions like relaxation, emotion, 
attention and repetition. 

3. The picture power or visualization, and the will 
must work together to get the best results, if they are 
antagonistic the imagination will defeat the will. 

4. A suggestible state must obtain in order that the 
best may be secured to and through the personality. 

5. Repetition is the driving force of suggestion in 
order to make it hold and realize. 

6. Conscious Autosuggestion will not be effective 
immediately in many cases but when one gets the swing 
of it and complies with certain conditions it is in many 
respects the greatest power of the mind. 

7. There are great effects following the use of 
Autosuggestion under favorable conditions. 

8. Wrong habits can be corrected, sickness can be 
cured, abnormal conditions can be changed, success 


Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 41 

can be realized, remarkable development can be con¬ 
summated and great possibilities can be made actuali¬ 
ties in the life by self-suggestion. 

9. We are constantly giving ourselves unconscious 
suggestions, and we can give conscious ones, and if 
we avoid and conquer adverse unconscious ones we 
can with the conscious produce great effects in the 
body, the mind and the moral nature. 

10. One who expects to get splendid results from 
the use of Autosuggestion must guard strenuously 
against having the will power determine to do so and 
so and then allow the picture power to contradict that. 
If that occurs there will be no effect. The Autosugges¬ 
tion takes effect in the subconscious mind first and the 
reason why the will and the imagination must synchro¬ 
nize, or work together, is that the phase of mind does 
not do anything when contradictions meet there. The 
psychological reason is that that phase of mind rea¬ 
sons only deductively. It will take a statement or 
proposition and carry it out to the limit but if you 
send two opposing statements into that phase of mind 
at once it will do nothing. This may be as good a 
place as any to call attention to the psychological fact 
that in the subconscious mind there are certain remark¬ 
able powers, such as intuition, faith, spiritual percep¬ 
tion, kinetic energy, telegraphic ability, clairvoyance 
and other remarkable characteristics. The term sub¬ 
conscious covers the whole special psychical nature. 

11. These hidden forces can be called into action 
and utilized in accomplishing remarkable things in life. 
Autosuggestion can and does work with these forces 


42 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

and the more brief and definite, direct and graphic a 
statement is the more effective and swift it will be in 
realization. 

12. Let me illustrate what I mean in some of the 
statements above. For instance, if you say to yourself 
you can do a certain thing and you hold a picture in 
your mind that you cannot do that, you cannot and 
you will not. If you make the effort it will be poorly 
done, if at all. 

The great defect in Dr. Dubois’ Method is that he 
makes the will and not the imagination primary. To 
make the re-education of the will effective and com¬ 
plete there must be a utilization of the picture power 
of the mind or the imagination with the will. In my 
large work on “Suggestion: Its Law and Applica¬ 
tion”; or the “Principle and Practice of Psycho- 
Therapeutics,” I discuss different phases of this sub¬ 
ject and show the psychological reasons, methods and 
practices of Suggestion and Autosuggestion. 

The illustrations as given throughout this section 
will show how necessary it is to combine the imagina¬ 
tion and the will together so that the best results may 
be secured. 

Let it be clearly understood that the idea of a con¬ 
dition will lead to the manifestation of that condition. 
The fear of defeat, of destruction, of contagion will 
produce a panic in a mob, in an army, in a country. 
If we imitate movements or act out certain things we 
shall produce those conditions or things in our lives. 
A young man imitated the movements of another per¬ 
son who had St. Vitus’ dance and his mind was so im- 


Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 43 

pressed that he had trouble in voluntarily preventing 
those movements for sometime afterwards. If you 
want to establish a cheerful and hopeful condition of 
mind act them out for a certain length of time and 
they will become a natural manifestation. The 
peripheral theory of emotions fit into this view. That 
theory was advanced and advocated by Lange of Ger¬ 
many and Prof. James of America. The theory stated 
in simple terms is that we are sorry because we weep. 
We are fearful because we tremble. We are angry 
because we strike. The idea is motor and not 
primarily emotional. The emotional becomes the 
product of the action. 

Another great truth underlying the power of sug¬ 
gestion is that we can overcome certain conditions by 
inducing or producing opposite influences. For in¬ 
stance, an effective method of overcoming and con¬ 
quering fear is to direct the attention to courage, 
mastery, victory, power and success. The mind 
becomes absorbed by the opposite ideas which are 
positive and aggressive and sooner or later the fear 
idea will cease to act and the person will be master. 
Do not talk about being afraid as that will augment 
the fear idea. This applies also to sickness, worry, 
and adverse conditions and thoughts. Let the piind 
be positive and negative thoughts will not affect you. 

Autosuggestion is a method of great power in meet¬ 
ing negative, abnormal and adverse conditions. We 
have not yet discovered the amazing power of sug¬ 
gestion generally and of Autosuggestions particularly 
as to what they can do in their wide and definite ap- 


44 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

plication to the human personality. When a definite 
purpose is proposed to the mind it is amazing how the 
subconscious mind finds means to attain that purpose 
and the methods it can use for its realization. Psy¬ 
chologists have been slow to consider the power of sug¬ 
gestion and to concede that there is a subconscious 
phase of mind. They have called it, and some do yet 
call it, reflex action, but that is just as much of a theory 
as the assumption we make that there is a subconscious 
mind or phase of mind. The materialistic, and some 
physiological, psychologists reject utterly the theory of 
the subconscious mind. They ought to give up the 
term psychology, for that is the science of the soul, if 
they accept the etymology of the word. “Consistency 
is a jewel” when not found in certain conditions or 
relations. 

It is an excellent practice to place with emotional 
manifestation mental sensations of an opposite nature. 
For example over against sorrow place laughter, 
against weariness and fatigue place rest and strength, 
against fear place courage. There are many illustra¬ 
tions that the reader can find to illustrate this. If one 
is very warm and will shiver and say “I am cold,” the 
warm feeling will be changed very speedily. 

Another method of conquering fear or anger is to 
repress the movements characteristic of these emotions 
and manifest physical indifference and suggest sweet¬ 
ness of temper and courage. If you are cold, breathe 
and straighten up and suggest warmth, that the blood 
is flowing more rapidly and that every part of the body 
is getting warm. 


Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 45 

Acting out certain things like love or hate, it is 
easier to feign them than it is to feign an emotion 
like anger. The former may be increased, but anger 
seems to be complete on first manifestation. The 
former may be augmented or decreased by doing 
something in correspondence with the manifestations 
of the sentiments of love or hate, but in anger the 
emotion is primary and must be met by reason and 
action. 

If one does some remarkable piece of work he will 
counteract certain impulses that are manifesting for 
expression. A good illustration of this is found in 
the life of Goethe. He tells us that he was freed 
from a suicidal impulse by writing Werther. Space 
will not permit the giving of reasons why, but the 
reader must be content or think it out for himself by 
using the principles stated. 

Another principle that plays a prominent part in 
the use of Autosuggestion is that imaginary gratifica¬ 
tions of certain desires are like repressed impulses in 
dreams they bring satisfaction and relief. Geothe 
killed himself in imagination in Werther. Here is 
the law or principle I have mentioned two or three 
times already, every mental impression strives for ex¬ 
pression, every mental picture strives for realization . 
That leads to relief, satisfaction and to release. Bot¬ 
tling up or repressing feelings may eventually prove 
hurtful but letting them out or expressing them in 
numerous possible forms may bring relief and satis¬ 
faction. There are numerous illustrations that could 
be cited from literature, history and biography con- 


46 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

firming these principles. Victor Hugo as he stood by 
the ocean trying to relieve his anger said—“Besides, 
gloomy ocean, I hate thee.” Relief comes from ex¬ 
pression and the principle given above really shows 
the reason. 

If you want to get the best out of life, the noblest 
thoughts, feelings and impulses must find expression. 
If the benevolent emotions are to be strengthened 
when they are stirred they must express themselves. 
Tendencies like inclinations, passions and tastes are 
the open pathways of the emotional life and lie at the 
foundation of all possible happiness. By talking and 
thinking of love we develop a character of a similar 
nature and we fall in love with others. Suggestion 
thus has a creative power and brings into existence 
wonderful realities, bodily changes and remarkable 
conditions. 

The science of psycho-analysis reveals the action of 
Autosuggestion in early life. Phenomena in every¬ 
day life and special utterances as well as general casual 
conversations reveal not only what is in the subcon¬ 
scious mind but reveal also suggestions which have 
been lodged there and their working in a measure. 
A name of a friend may be forgotten because of his 
resemblance to some one we dislike; blunders through 
absent-mindedness; saying “no” for “yes” or con¬ 
versely when answering questions, all have a subcon¬ 
scious reason underlying them. 

These and many other things have an intimate re¬ 
lation. Ordinary sayings, and many things we do, not 
only betray our thoughts but the roots of those things 


Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 47 

lie down in the subconscious and many of them are 
intimately connected with suggestions which have 
anchored in that phase of mind. Accumulated sug¬ 
gestion in the subconscious mind escapes in remarkable 
ways and leads to fulfilment. Mental pictures come 
to a realization in one form or another. Opposing 
ambitions will produce conflict, confusion and failure. 
Here is a man who is ambitious to be rich and yet he 
expects to be poor. That condition will lead to failure 
sooner or later. One cannot travel East and West at 
the same time. Neither can one become rich if he 
holds continually the picture of poverty in his mind. 
A person will go as he faces. He who everlasting 
says “I will always be poor, I have no ability to be¬ 
come rich, I expect to die poor” will go toward the 
poorhouse and not toward a palace. One’s mental at¬ 
titude and pictures will determine his success or failure 
in life. 

Many so-called healers have had remarkable re¬ 
sults when medical skill has utterly failed to help. 
There must be a reason why this is so? They use 
suggestion and their great reputation due either to 
much advertising and testimonials, all of which many 
people are quick to believe and accept, and the fan¬ 
tastic methods and dress arousing the sense of the 
marvelous in those coming for help, produce in the 
subjects an aroused emotional condition which greatly 
aids the working of suggestion and Autosuggestion. 
Belief and expectation help to secure some very re¬ 
markable results. 

A widely advertised medicine, which may have prac- 


48 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

tically nothing in it but harmless ingredients, by the aid 
of Autosuggestion may produce favorable results. 
Warts on the hands are amenable to suggestion in a 
very remarkable manner. One on my hand was thus 
removed. A man afflicted with asthma was taken with 
a paroxysm in which he felt that he must have fresh air 
or die. He arose in the dark, groped around the room 
and came to what he thought was the window. He 
could not open it and so smashed the glass and went 
back to bed and breathed easier and went to sleep. In 
the morning he found that he had smashed the large 
looking glass. The Autosuggestion brought relief 
even at the expense of not getting any more fresh air. 

(In my large work on Suggestion many remarkable 
cases are given illustrating the power of suggestion 
and Autosuggestion.) 

There is one more statement that ought to be made 
before we leave this phase of our discussion. It is 
this, there is no radical difference between the action 
of suggestion and Autosuggestion in their results. 

Can organic diseases be cured? Some of them can. 
When an organ is destroyed there is no foundation 
for work but where an organ is affected and where 
nerve power is operative and suggestion can be 
anchored in the subconscious mind functional troubles 
can be rather rapidly cured and organic conditions re¬ 
markably helped and frequently cured. The reader 
must recall the fact that suggestion controls, directs 
and works through the subconscious mind and that 
mind controls and works through the sympathetic 
nervous system. In other words, suggestion works 


Autosuggestion Defined and Illustrated 49 

through the vaso-motor nerves and can thus restrict 
or stimulate the circulation through the capillaries and 
can supply groups of cells or can inhibit that supply. 
In the former condition there will be a normal or ex¬ 
cessive feeding, in the latter condition there will be 
impoverishment and decrease. In other words, cells 
will prosper or atrophy and die. Herein is the ex¬ 
planation of the removal of tumors or by mental pic¬ 
tures they can be enlarged. This is equally true of 
many abnormal conditions in the body. They can be 
developed or exterminated according to the kind of 
Autosuggestion used. 

This is also true of many physical abnormalities. 
They can be removed, modified or augmented accord 
ing to the ideas we use and the thoughts we hold in 
the mind. 

This chapter is a lengthy one on account of con¬ 
sidering the many phases of Autosuggestion and their 
relations to the whole subject under consideration. 
The principles stated will be used in the following 
chapters but not elaborated as in this one. 


CHAPTER III 


Conditions Necessary for Effective 
Autosuggestion 

1. Relaxation. Tension of body and mind must be 
released or given up as that interferes with the normal 
and uninterrupted circulation of the blood and with the 
nerve energy. There are many things that produce 
tension such as worry, fear, certain habits, mental dis¬ 
turbances, insomnia, lack of exercise and certain dis¬ 
eases. Tension also has a tendency to produce these 
conditions or states so that a vicious circle is estab¬ 
lished. Relaxation must be, at first, a positive, vol¬ 
untary effort. Very few people can relax every muscle 
at once. They must practice relaxing parts of the 
body until they can in a very definite and speedy man¬ 
ner let go. This must be done as a preparation for 
receiving effectively suggestions. Many people in¬ 
voluntarily tense the muscles and keep them on a 
tension the whole of the waking hours. When they 
retire the tension continues through the night and by 
and by the nerves that have felt the strain commence 
to rebel. If the tension continues nervousness de¬ 
velops and neurasthenia manifests and the person 
goes on from bad to worse until the condition almost 
looks hopeless. This has all come from tension and 
50 


Conditions Necessary for Autosuggestion 51 

the things that produce it in the mind and body. 
Relaxation is just the opposite condition from tension. 
It is voluntarily letting go. When the mastery of ten¬ 
sion is an accomplished fact then one can relax the 
whole body at once and be ready for the work in 
hand. A simple test will prove that one is on a ten¬ 
sion. It is to drop the shoulders and that leads to a 
conscious feeling of relief and relaxation. 

In order to make the relaxation thorough and com¬ 
plete it is best to lie down on a bed or couch. Mentally 
determine that you will relax every part of the body. 
Breathe deeply for a minute or two. Then lift, drop 
and relax the right arm, the left, the right leg, the 
left, relax the back muscles from the lower part of 
the back to the neck, then the neck muscles by turning 
the neck from side to side, then the head and face 
muscles, then the chest and abdominal muscles. Go 
over these exercises of relaxation for the different 
parts of the body three or more times and mentally 
suggest relaxation. Then hold a mental picture of 
being thoroughly relaxed and by an easy voluntary 
effort relax every muscle at once. Persist in this exer¬ 
cise until you succeed and feel utterly limp and have 
no desire to move or think. Breathe deeply for two 
or three minutes and mentally see all the deep muscles 
of the body in a complete relaxed condition. Do the 
work slowly and deliberately, otherwise you will tense 
the muscles. 

If one closes his eyes whilst doing this work, inci¬ 
dental distractions will be avoided, and if he relaxes 
the mental activity so that he does not care to think 


52 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

about anything particularly then the conscious phase 
of mind will be quiescent and will let the suggestions 
pass into the subconscious mind. 

2. Attention . Attention centers the mind on what 
one is doing and on what he desires to realize. Much 
of the poor memory complained of by many people 
is due to a lack of attention. The failure to secure 
results by using Autosuggestion is due to the same 
lack. A wandering mind accomplishes very little. One 
may repeat words or sentences or magic phrases and 
secure very little result if there is no intention to get 
results nor attention to what is being done. These 
words are used in the sense of devoting or fixing the 
thought on a definite thing to be done for a certain 
purpose. Concentration is the chief active element 
and how to develop that is presented in my other 
books with many illustrations. It will be necessary to 
present several statements in order to show the appli¬ 
cation of concentration. 

1. Hold in mind, in a very definite manner, the 
mental image of the things you desire to realize. The 
desire-energy will be exerted by the power of the sub¬ 
conscious mind according to the picture-vividness. For 
instance, you desire to restore your health. Hold the 
picture of being perfectly well and how you would act 
if you were. The more vividly you make the picture, 
with intense desire back of it, the more speedily you 
will recover. The mental picture will also help to hold 
the attention to the work in hand. 

2. Acting out what you desire will greatly assist in 
its realization. If you desire health act as though 


Conditions Necessary for Autosuggestion 53 

you were perfectly healthy. That will also strengthen 
the power of concentration. 

3. Tell yourself what you desire and center your 
mind on its realization and every power will fall in 
line to assist in securing the result. Then visualize the 
processes and results. An idea that tends to realize 
itself rapidly is an idea backed by spontaneous or 
voluntary attention. If one can unite these two phases 
of attention he will secure remarkable consequences. 

4. The picture-forming power of the mind is usually 
called the imagination. It is a great help in anchor¬ 
ing and realizing the Autosuggestion made. Some¬ 
times there is quite a conflict between it and the will 
but as a usual thing the imagination is master in the 
conflict. The reason is that the imagination is not 
controlled entirely by the conscious mind but it is an 
inherent power of the subconscious phase of mind. 
More can be expected and realized from visualization 
than from voluntary effort. If the conflict can be 
avoided between the imagination and the will and if 
they can be united to bring forth a definite realiza¬ 
tion there is nothing that can defeat that purpose. 
The subconscious phase of mind is the source of the 
greatest power and influence in the life and it can 
nullify much of the voluntary activity of the conscious 
mind. 

Selfishness and the senses are pathways that may 
lead to deserts in which the deceptive mirages will 
lead the thirsty pilgrims not to springs of living waters 
and oases of green grass and trees but further into 
sandy wastes and eventually to death of the higher 


54 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

self. Truth and reality from the noblest part of the 
nature, called the spiritual, will bring a realization of 
all that is highest and best. 

If pictures of fear, worry, failure and selfishness 
are held by the mind, corresponding harvests will be 
reaped. If pictures of mastery, love, success and true 
benevolence are held, an abundant harvest of good 
shall be the reaping. 

Nature tends to the normal and if it were not in¬ 
terfered with it would reach that goal. In the mental 
life of man there are wrong pictures, voluntarily and 
involuntarily doing what ought not to be done, and 
they are often the results of abnormal conditions. 

Imagination and Autosuggestion Are Great 
Forces in the Mental Life in Originating and 
Realizing High and Splendid Ideals. 

5. Brevity and Definiteness. The subconscious mind 
will take a brief and definite suggestion and carry it 
out to the limit but it will not work when it is over¬ 
burdened. It grips a brief and terse phrase or sen¬ 
tence and manifests its power in realizing it in definite 
results. If the sentence is graphic it is a great help 
in calling the mind into action. Take the sentence “I 
am feeling well.” If the subconscious mind gets that 
sentence with a picture and the emotion accompanying 
it, the mind proceeds at once to realize it in the whole 
body. If a counter-suggestion is made afterwards 
like this—“I am sick,” the feelings will take on the 
character of that suggestion and the power of the 
former suggestion will in a large measure be destroyed. 


Conditions Necessary for Autosuggestion 55 

Both sentences carry pictures, and the habit of the 
past will use the feelings as servants, and the sugges¬ 
tion “I am feeling well” will be nullified and if the 
old habit is very strong illness may be produced. This 
is one reason why one should not talk about his ail¬ 
ments, feelings or sickness for there is a tendency to 
deepen those impressions in the subconscious mind. 

The shorter the statement the easier it is for the 
subconscious mind to grip and use it. Take the for¬ 
mula, called the magic formula of Coue, “Day by day, 
in all respects, I get better and better.” It is a good 
statement, not long, containing a picture and easily 
unites with the desire for health. It will set the sub¬ 
conscious mind at work, at once, to realize it. I have 
tested this statement out in practice. A modified form 
of it that I have made makes it easier to memorize 
and apply. It is “Every day, in every way, I am get¬ 
ting better and better.” The spontaneous attention 
and the imagination grip it and it almost says itself. 
Having tried this statement out also I found certain 
things occurring more rapidly than with the former 
formula. Brevity and definiteness are the character¬ 
istics of this sentence and it will produce results if 
conditions are favorable and it is repeated often 
enough. 

6. Repetition. This is the driving or pushing force 
of suggestion. To make a suggestion to the mind 
only once leaves very little impression but if it is re¬ 
peated a number of times the impression is deepened 
and it starts the mind to work to realize it. My 
method has been to repeat an Autosuggestion seven 


56 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

times or a multiple of it. There is no particular magic 
in that number but that many times of repetition and 
the numbers 14 and 21 give an opportunity for the 
suggestion to become lodged and then the mind com¬ 
mences operation with its power and brings the realiza¬ 
tion. 

Repetition also awakens spontaneous attention, and 
with it concentration, so that the suggestion almost 
asserts itself as an obsession. The mind thus becomes 
almost completely absorbed in the idea and proceeds 
to automatically carry it out. For instance, you desire 
to remove a wart or a tumor. You suggest a normal, 
healthy condition of the circulation, tissues and organs 
and that those abnormal things will be removed. If 
you keep this up often and long enough the subcon¬ 
scious mind will do the work through the vital forces 
of the body. One form of suggestion that can be used 
is—“I am normal and healthy. Abnormal develop¬ 
ments are being removed. My blood is pure and it 
keeps my body clean and pure. No abnormal growths 
can remain. A healthy condition obtains in my whole 
body, etc.” Repeat this often enough under favorable 
conditions and the subconscious mind through the vaso¬ 
motor nervous system will commence to clean up and 
the picture of health and normality will begin to be 
realized. Another form of suggestion is this: “All 
abnormal conditions and growths are being removed.” 
Picture them going. The subconscious mind goes to 
work and stops all nourishment going to those abnor¬ 
mal growths and they commence to dry up and absorp- 


Conditions Necessary for Autosuggestion 57 

tion of the tumor occurs and the wart is easily picked 
off. Complying with the conditions stated will greatly 
aid in making Autosuggestion effective. 

The Best Times to Give Autosuggestion. 

No better times could be chosen than just before 
going to sleep at night and before becoming fully 
awake in the morning. The former is a good time 
for several reasons. 1. The suggestions have all night 
to work and produce certain results. There is need 
of a period of incubation or development in suggestion 
so that it shall produce the greatest effects. 2. There 
is less conscious antagonism or resistance to the sug¬ 
gestions given before going to sleep at night. They 
can pass into the subconscious phase of mind, and 
usually the best relaxed condition of the body and mind 
obtains then, so that there is very little preparation 
in that respect needed, and under such conditions the 
suggestions are operative at once and may unhindered 
go on to fulfilment. 3. The day tension being natu¬ 
rally released the organs can work and the fluids of 
the body can flow unhindered and this is an incidental 
aid to comfort and relaxation and to the easier 
approach to the subconscious mind. 

It is a general thing with people that they do not 
awaken completely at once in the morning so that there 
is usually a partially awake condition. In that state 
of mind, before the conscious mind is fully aroused 
to action and thinking, it is a good time to give auto¬ 
suggestions strengthening those given before going to 
sleep and giving others for the work and experience 


58 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

of the day. These I consider the best times in which 
to do effective work. If a good opportunity presents 
itself during the day and if one can lie down on a couch 
or bed or sit in an easy chair and relax he can give 
himself suggestions that will take effect more or less 
rapidly. The work must he done regularly and daily. 

The author is not presenting a theory but an actual 
practice which he follows and from which he has 
experienced most remarkable results in every respect 
in his life and in the lives of others. A test of this 
matter can be made by anyone who will follow the 
instructions. It is needless to criticize these things 
as long as one does not, or is not willing to, carry out 
the instructions and prove for himself the truth or 
falsehood of the statements made. We have tested 
these things out and we know that they are true and 
that great results in many ways can be secured by an 
honest effort to obtain self-help and mastery of adverse 
conditions. 


CHAPTER IV 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 

The application of suggestion and Autosuggestion 
is not as difficult as some people think. There are a 
number of things that may voluntarily and spontane¬ 
ously interfere with the effectiveness of this practice. 
For instance, lack of faith in the sense of believing 
and trusting. Especially is that so in hereto-sugges- 
tion. Some people are naturally skeptical especially 
concerning new things of which they know little and 
have had no experience. The element of curiosity 
also has to be reckoned with. Certain habits of 
mind will not quickly or easily yield to suggestions 
given. There are some minds that question every¬ 
thing said to them. This very materially interferes 
with getting results that are desirable. Some minds 
are naturally lazy and do not take in the meaning of 
what the suggestion means and can do. Some minds 
are dull and very slow in action and in this way the 
realization is prevented. There are people who have 
a wrong conception of the whole matter and that state 
of mind prevents good results. Many persons are 
not willing to comply with the conditions under which 
suggestion is given, such as definite reception, and 
failure results. These statements will show some of 
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60 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

the disadvantages under which an operator labors when 
trying to get healthful and helpful suggestions lodged 
in the subconscious mind in order to produce good and 
permanent effects. 

There are certain elements of these things mentioned 
that also interfere with giving one’s self suggestion. 
The amusing feature of talking to one’s self comes 
out very prominently in some cases. It preempts a 
serious state of mind necessary for good work and as 
in one case a person said “I could not talk to myself 
without laughing aloud and that acted unfavorably.” 
Discouragement also interferes with persistency. 
Many persons have said to me “I don’t see any change 
in the things I want to correct and what is the use of 
my keeping it up?” One difficulty that some of these 
people confront is that they do not understand the 
working of the mind or they would not talk as they do. 
One person said “It looks foolish to me to talk to 
myself and expect to get health, healing, and happi¬ 
ness.” This only betrayed his ignorance. It is pos¬ 
sible to talk to one’s self in such a way as to not only 
expect those things but also to realize them. There 
are numerous cases that could be cited to prove that a 
profound change has been wrought in the lives of 
many persons by utilizing autosuggestion. Things 
have been done and revolutions in habit and character 
have occurred which seem unaffected by any other 
method of appeal. A young man had fastened upon 
himself the morphine habit and he tried many times 
and in many ways to give it up. One night he was in 
his room and was thinking about his dead mother 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 61 

whom he loved very much. He thought if she could 
be with him and pray with him that he would no longer 
be mastered by the habit. He went to bed. He had 
a vivid dream in which she appeared to him just as 
she looked when she was in the home on earth. She 
sat by his bedside and wept and in broken sobs pleaded 
with him to give up the habit. The mental impression 
was so vivid that he awoke from his sleep and arose 
from his bed and took the bottle of morphine and the 
syringe and broke them in pieces and from that time 
he became master and never used it again. His 
thoughts about the help his mother could give him 
was the occasion of a desire for help and the last 
thoughts were a picture of that mother who could 
help him and in his sleep that picture backed by his 
desire pushed up in the form of a dream and that led 
him to destroy the drug and syringe and claim his 
freedom. The change was subconscious and what he 
said to himself was a form of suggestion. 

Many prominent people have accomplished remark¬ 
able things in their lives by self-suggestion. Professor 
Forel, of Zurich, Switzerland, with a constant ringing 
in his ears as a result of chronic dry catarrh of the 
middle ear, succeeded in directing his attention 
to other things so that he did not hear or notice the 
ringing sound only when he thought particularly about 
it. Immanuel Kant could so control his mind as to 
make it triumph over a very oppressive palpitation of 
the heart. He could put himself in a somnolent state 
in which his mind being interested in intellectual work 
he became unconscious of the physical sensation and 


62 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

discomfiture. Men like Pascal and others have cured 
themselves of a severe toothache by taking up some 
problems or questions that would absorb the atten¬ 
tion. These things are a species of autosuggestion. 
Sleeplessness, constipation, bad habits, worry, fear, 
weakness and fatigue, irritability, self-consciousness, 
stage-fright and a multitude of conditions that might 
be mentioned have been cured and cured completely 
by the use of autosuggestion as well as by hetero-sug¬ 
gestion. Certain ideas have a tendency to produce 
self-suggestion and then they either lose themselves in 
the multitude of ideas of an active life in consciousness 
or they act unconsciously, producing certain results 
in the psychical life. This may explain certain com¬ 
plaints of people. The ideas have entered the sub¬ 
conscious mind and as seasons change and occasions 
arise some persons suggest that their old complaints 
will return. This is true of migraine or sick-head- 
ache periodically manifesting, bronchitis appearing 
in the fall as chill air is felt, rheumatism during 
March’s changeable weather, and many other com¬ 
plaints and ailments—they are the product partly or 
wholly of Autosuggestion. It is a well-known fact that 
an idea in the mind that stands out clearly when one 
is going to sleep may awaken other ideas or itself start 
a mental process that will become the central thought 
of a dream or dreams. In a book entitled “Incuba¬ 
tion” by Mary Hamilton, of England, there are 
numerous cases given where people practiced the art 
of invoking dreams which they ascribed to the visit 
of their gods. Those things were really autosugges- 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 63 

tion. In their sleep some very remarkable things were 
done and great recoveries from serious ailments 
occurred. Many early temples were given over to 
the afflicted who came in great numbers, multitudes of 
whom recovered completely. Some dreamed of the 
gods visiting them and touching or laying their hands 
on them and restoring them at once to a normal 
condition. 

The subconscious mind knows intuitively certain 
things and frequently in dreams presents the actual 
lesions and organic tendencies that are found in the 
body. (In my large work on “Suggestion” there are 
many things presented that prove this statement.) 
A poet worries his brain over a stanza or certain 
phrases and in his weariness he gives up trying to get 
what he wants or how to end his poem. He goes to 
bed and in the morning just before he is fully awake 
he has in his mind just what he tried the night before 
to consciously produce. Many a student burns the 
midnight oil as he tries to consciously work out a 
hard mathematical problem. The author’s experi¬ 
ence confirms this. Frequently he and many others 
have worked out the problems unconsciously and in 
the morning the solution was in the mind. Some¬ 
times when the dream or solutions to problems or 
statements for orations have been very vivid students 
have awakened and have arisen and put down on 
paper what they had received in a dream. The auto¬ 
suggestion started days before and ended in a realiza¬ 
tion which seemed almost impossible. Some persons 
have heard, in their dreams, voices dictating certain 


64 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

things which they have been trying' to get consciously 
when studying diligently on certain subjects. There 
are some principles that one ought to understand in 
order to explain these things and a number of things 
that seem mysterious. 

1. Centering the mind on a definite idea in order to 
bring it into realization. There is a manifestation of 
involuntary suggestion in the subconscious mind. If 
one can concentrate his attention on ideas in that realm 
of mind and will hold the conscious mind in abeyance 
he will secure amazing results. 

2. Intense interest in what is desired sets the mental 
machinery at work to realize it. This interest has a 
tendency to call into activity all the power of concen¬ 
tration that one possesses and to develop a fulfilment 
of the desire in an astonishing way. 

3. If the idea is backed up by an emotional mani¬ 
festation there will be in many cases an immediate 
result that will almost seem to be miraculous. If the 
emotion is intense it will strengthen the force of a 
suggestion or idea. 

This is true of fear. When sudden it may almost 
paralyze one or in some cases may force the motor 
nerves into such sudden action as to cause a paralytic 
to move out of a place of danger without any help. 
A fire broke out in a house and a man who was para¬ 
lyzed got out of his room, down stairs and out on the 
lawn and did not know how he got there. No one 
helped him out, he helped himself under the fear of 
loss of life. When the idea of getting out of danger 
entered his mind and the emotions of self-protection 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 65 

let loose their power it did not take long to get the 
disabled body out of the place of danger. 

4. All ideas of action and emotions of protection 
have a tendency to realize rapidly. Some people have 
been recovered from certain ailments by being driven 
suddenly from their bed or chair by a graphic idea of 
action and an emotion of protection. An emotion 
gives a driving force to an idea or desire. 

5. When a suggestion is anchored firmly in the mind 
and it calls for definite action and if the action becomes 
spontaneous and the emotions back it up there is no 
staying its expression. All the conscious will power 
that one possesses seems to add strength to the sugges¬ 
tion and is utterly unable to prevent its manifestation. 
Persons in which this occurs will say “I was utterly 
unable to prevent doing or saying what I did.” Some 
will make the rather humiliating remark “I wanted to 
do so and so but I could not.” Emotion arouses and 
intensifies an idea or suggestion or mental impression 
so that it grips the mind and when it does no one can 
predict what will happen. All great reformations 
and reformers have this condition in action and mind. 

6. The involuntary suggestions are the ones we 
must particularly look after because they usually carry 
in themselves things that are not desirable in mani¬ 
festation. They are the source of some ailments, 
misfortunes, weakness and wickedness. When certain 
ideas are pushed up into the consciousness such as 
failure, worry, fear, weakness, loss, illness they ought 
to be met and destroyed at once by powerful auto¬ 
suggestion. If they are not, and an occasion comes, 


66 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

other things will line up with them and those things 
will be realized. Avoid telling about your ailments 
and anticipations of bad times, bad investments and 
seasons, do not talk about the things you do not want 
to realize in your experiences. Live a positive and 
not a negative life. “Know thyself,” learn to control 
and destroy involuntary adverse suggestions and learn 
how to give yourself those suggestions that will help 
you to develop the highest ideals and the most com¬ 
plete mastery and bring you the greatest happiness. 

There ought to be a brief presentation of the char¬ 
acteristics of an operator and of the subject in order 
to secure the best effects of suggestion in its applica¬ 
tion. (There is a full discussion of this phase of the 
subject in my large book on “Suggestion.”) In order 
to secure the fullest measure of benefit there are cer¬ 
tain conditions if complied with that will greatly assist 
in securing far-reaching results. 

1. The operator must be positive in his attitude of 
mind. If he hesitates and is uncertain as to his ability 
and whether he can help the subject, these things will 
be intuitively sensed by the subject and that will prac¬ 
tically end the operator’s work and influence. If he 
is positive in speech and action the subject will be 
impressed that he must obey and will receive benefit. 
If the operator makes suggestions in a reckless, slip¬ 
shod manner failure will follow. A balanced, calm, 
masterful and positive operator will succeed. If he 
has a gift of persuasive speech, convincing logic, a 
good knowledge of psychology, the ability to command 
confidence, truthfulness and tactfulness, a calm and 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 67 

firm character, faith in himself and in his treatment 
he will make a successful practitioner. The converse 
will be a failure. The operator should be mentally, 
morally and physically healthy. 

2. Tactful. Tact is doing the right thing, at the 
right time and in the right manner. As an illustra¬ 
tion of tactfulness let me cite a case. It is melancholia. 
The operator must be reserved and not talk too much 
for that robs one of psychical power. His personal 
appearance must impress the subject. His methods 
must appeal to the subject’s mind. Then he must 
commence with suggestions that will not antagonize 
the patient’s thought. If the patient becomes speedily 
relaxed and seems at ease then the operator can 
quietly make his suggestions and expect that they will 
be received. 

3. It is scarcely necessary to say that the operator 
must be sympathetic and patient. This is almost 
axiomatic. 

Every operator must know how to make suggestions 
effectively. His tone of voice, the emphases on cer¬ 
tain words, a determination that success will be realized 
and a large heart interest will bring great help to the 
subject and great success to the operator. 

The subject has also a part to play if he is to get 
the best out of the treatments. 

1. He must be passive and receptive.' If he antago¬ 
nizes the operator and his suggestions he had better 
stop at once for there is no help for him there. The 
subject must not be too desirous of results at once as 
that condition of mind is easily discouraged. A pas- 


68 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

sive condition is one in which the conscious mind is 
temporarily quiescent, the body relaxed and the person 
is in a restful state of mind and body. 

Two things are positively required in order to get 
the best from suggestive treatment. 

1. A definite consent of the will and receptive state 
of mind. 

2. Obedience to the operator and a desire for help. 
When these conditions are complied with then the 
subject will secure the best results. 

2. Expectancy. Expectation in a large way might 
express the mental attitude that realizes the highest 
benefits. This is a condition of mind that enters into 
most of the cures effected. It is the same mental 
attitude that leads one to accept statements and things 
that have no particular virtue in them. A good illus¬ 
tration is the fakir who plays on the credulity of people 
as Perkins did with his tractors. The expectation of 
getting the results promised sold hundreds and thou¬ 
sands of that useless device. John St. John Long’s 
“Wonderful Liniment” for rheumatism and hundreds 
of other preparations show how the power of this 
mental characteristic will cause people to part with 
their money. When the tractors were exposed as 
worthless and Long’s liniment by analysis was found 
to be nothing but turpentine and the white of an egg 
the people lost faith and the British Government lost 
a large amount of money, which was paid for the 
preparation, because the leaders expected to give the 
benefit of it to chronic rheumatic sufferers. Most of 
the patent medicines and quack devices and prepara- 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 69 

tions are put out and sold in view of that peculiar law 
of expectation. Practitioners know that very little 
can be done for patients if they do not expect to be 
helped. 

3. Helpful. This mental attitude of the subject is 
one of cooperation. Autosuggestion can accept and 
make effective the hetero-suggestions. Every subject 
is an active center of energy and can greatly aid or 
hinder the operator in his work. This attitude of 
mind can and will be indirectly a benefit to the subject 
in bringing to Him recovery from abnormal states. 
If he will visualize the hetero-suggestions given and 
reinforce them by assent and repetition he will be 
surprised how rapidly he will recover and establish a 
normal condition. He can also surround himself with 
an atmosphere of love and power and thus secure 
results that he never dreamed of securing. Helpful¬ 
ness in a large measure secures wonderful consequences 
in the life. 

The application of suggestion and autosuggestion 
will be appreciated and understood more clearly when 
used definitely. Let us 

1. Analyze the definition of suggestion. It has been 
defined as follows: <( Suggestion is the bringing of an 
idea or ideas into the mind under other ideas that are 
there in order to supplant, suppress or support them 
or to create new ideas and to incite the mind into 
action.” Some ideas have power in themselves to 
excite the mind into action. They are so dynamic 
that the mind starts to realize them as soon as they 
enter. An illustration is the sensation of great heat 


70 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

and protection against it. Many illustrations can be 
thought of by the reader. Give Martin Luther the 
idea of a needed Reformation and he takes the lead 
in bringing that about. Give Wesley the idea of 
righteousness and he prepares to establish that. Give 
Lincoln the idea of freedom for the slaves and he will 
lead in breaking their shackles. The mighty changes 
that have occurred in the world were the result of 
ideas that entered men’s minds and prepared leaders 
to realize them. This is true in invention, music, art, 
politics, social life and in the whole sphere of life. 
Good ideas can supplant bad ones, true ideas can 
supplant false ones. Our educational system is a proof 
of this. Ideas may be suppressed by other ideas. 
Psycho-analysis and other systems of treatment and 
teaching prove this. Ideas can get under and enforce 
in a remarkable way ideas that are in the mind. Every 
system of conduct or morals proves this. The method 
of supplanting ideas may be by substitution. To get 
an idea out of the mind you may in a way pull it out 
or drive it out. The mind is so constituted that it 
can multiply its power and create new energy. This 
is also true in reference to ideas. All true dynamic 
ideas will set the mind in operation to realize that 
which the ideas carry in themselves. This definition 
is quite comprehensive and is a good working outline 
by which anyone can easily and effectively follow a 
line of practice and action in order to secure great 
results in the whole personality. 

2. To maintain the health. Where there is a nor¬ 
mal state of health it is necessary in order to maintain 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 71 

it that we bring into the mind healthful ideas and 
keep them there. Suggestions to restore the health 
are not applicable but those which have a tendency to 
enforce the ideas of the health that we have can be 
used most effectively. For instance, the following 
autosuggestions can be used: “I am well, strong, vigor¬ 
ous and healthy.” u My health is perfect and will be 
maintained so day by day.” “My mental attitude 
is positive and healthy.” “Every function and organ 
of my body is working normally.” “My circulation 
of the blood is perfect, my breathing is deep and 
normal, my digestion is sound, my nerves are strong 
and normal in action, my whole personality of mind, 
spirit and body are healthy, vigorous and normal.” 
Such suggestions will be accepted by the subconscious 
mind and will keep one in good health. 

3. To restore the health . Here is where Autosug¬ 
gestion wins its greatest trophies. Probably no one 
thing works such marvelous results as this method of 
practice in relation to sickness and to many ailments 
of the body and mind. Some of its wonderful cures 
and recoveries are almost unbelievable. Hetero-sug¬ 
gestion has much, if not most, of its remarkable results 
through autosuggestion. This form of suggestion is 
the prototype of suggestion, in every form, when its 
appeal is to the mind of man. Hetero-suggestion can 
do practically nothing when opposed by it. 

A statement previously made ought to be recalled 
by the reader which is this: The subconscious phase of 
mind controls all of the vital functions and organs of 
the body. Respiration, circulation, elimination, diges - 


72 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

tion and all the organs performing these functions are 
under the immediate control and inflence of that mind 
and that mind is controlled by suggestion . 

If, for instance, there is dyspepsia we must reach 
the stomach through the subconscious mind and sup¬ 
plant the idea of indigestion by the idea of a healthy 
stomach, a proper secretion of digestive fluids and 
that the digestion is becoming normal. If the idea 
of perfect digestion and action of the stomach in a 
normal way gets under the other idea of abnormality 
and supplants it there will be a change very rapidly 
for the better. There must be care in combining 
foods in a proper manner so as not to hinder or in¬ 
terfere with the healthy suggestion. The purpose is 
to establish a normal, healthy condition. 

This is also true concerning heart troubles. The 
suggestions must be reasonable ideas that appeal to 
the subconscious mind so that the mind will go to 
work through the vital forces to strengthen the valves, 
muscles, tissues and nerves and restore the heart to its 
healthy action. The lungs, the kidneys, the liver and 
other organs can be treated in the same way and 
remarkable results can be secured. 

Some forms of suggestion will be given later show¬ 
ing what to say and how to apply suggestions to the 
organs and different conditions of the body and mind. 

4 .To create and maintain a state of happiness. 
Many people are not happy because they have a wrong 
attitude of mind. They always anticipate adverse 
things. They seem to take a delight in being unhappy 
and their pleasure seems to be increased when they 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 73 

can make others so. As a usual thing people desire 
to be happy and they resort to all kinds of expedients 
in order to bring about that state. 

Happiness is something not purchased with money, 
nor secured as a gift, nor a result of having things 
favorable in our environment but it is a personal, 
inward state of the mind. So many expedients are 
resorted to in order to secure it. Pleasure-seeking in 
dancing, amusements, art, books, travel and many 
other things have been utilized to bring and maintain 
this state of mind. Some of the unhappiest people 
that it has been the author’s privilege to meet have 
done, and have had, all of these things. Happiness 
is not a physical but a mental state; it does not result 
from what we handle and receive but from a condition 
of mind and life. Mental methods will develop and 
maintain happiness by making an appeal to the mind 
and calling into action the best and noblest qualities 
of the life. The things mentioned above may be 
occasions of manifesting that state of mind but they 
cannot create and maintain it. The autosuggestions 
must get down under the ideas of happiness, or that 
state of mind, and enforce those ideas and that state, 
and bring that condition to realization. Such sug¬ 
gestions as “I am happy.” “I am cheerful.” “I am 
manifesting happiness every day.” “It is my nature 
to be happy.” “I have a good feeling for every¬ 
body.” “Every day, in every way, I get the best 
out of my life.” i} My life is filled with happiness.” 
These and similar suggestions can be used and most 
wonderful results can be secured. 


74 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

5. To control or master one 1 s self. Self-control 
is an easy matter when everything is favorable but it 
is a hard task when conditions are adverse, irritating 
and provoking. You have been insulted and a desire 
arises in the mind to punish the one who has offered 
the insult and complete self-control does not manifest 
itself by not punishing the person, but by getting rid 
of the desire to do so. Self-control is not complete 
until one has mastered the inward mental state as well 
as the outward physical action. It is the mental side 
of our nature that originates, initiates, controls and 
directs. The environment, feelings and passions influ¬ 
ence the mental side of our life and give occasion for 
the exercise of self-control. But self-control is 
developed and manifested as one gets a strong, vivid 
picture in mind of a well-developed personality and 
holding that picture will bring it to realization. 

One ought to study himself in order to learn his 
weak and strong points. If one is weak and negative 
he is easily controlled by others and that state of mind 
is against self-control. If one sees himself strong, 
masterful and able to do what he wants to do this 
leads to power and accomplishment. Self-control or 
mastery develops rapidly as one gets a strong, vivid 
picture in the mind and autosuggestion will help in 
establishing that and realizing it. Hold that picture 
as long as it vividly stays in the mind and the result 
will be surprising. If the will can be combined with 
the imagination the greatest effects will be produced. 
This self-control or mastery must not be for special 
times only but at all times. 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 75 

Some persons think that if they control their actions 
that they have complete mastery over themselves. 
This is not so for the desire may lay back of fiery 
feeling and until that is controlled there is a liability 
to sudden actions which may undo much good. You 
may act as though you did not hate, but the real 
danger is in the feeling of hatred and until that is 
mastered one is in bondage to it and not master of it. 
You may repress laughter, but if you do, it is liable 
to manifest itself in spite of the strongest efforts to 
prevent. If you relax your muscles and do not resist, 
the force will be expended and the desire of laughter 
will subside. This is also true of fear. For instance, 
some people fear to take an anaesthetic. If they 
would relax before taking it the fear would pass. 
There are so many conditions in life where this princi¬ 
ple applies. The desire to strike one who has made 
you angry can be controlled by relaxing the mind and 
turning the desire to strike into a desire to help, if 
the person is willing to be helped. If one can make 
you angry that far he controls you. Any emotional 
manifestation that controls one makes him its servant. 
If he controls it, he is the master. Repressed feel¬ 
ings, harbored bitterness, cultivated hatred, fitful 
anger, determined revenge, will work havoc sooner 
or later in the one who has these things in his mental 
life. They must be put out and autosuggestion is a 
great power in helping to do this. There is an illus¬ 
tration in the New Testament of the principle that 
has been presented above. “Love your enemies” is a 
command by The Christ. If this commandment were 


76 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

literally obeyed, it would affect a great change in the 
person who obeys and in the lives of others as an 
example. The whole world would be transformed— 
wars would cease, bitterness would end, and men and 
women would enter into another kingdom. 

Some exercises: Relax, breathe deeply and speak 
slowly in a whisper the following words: “I can be 
master of myself. I will be master. Nothing can 
stand in my way to realize complete self mastery. 
“I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth 
me.” “I am strong, positive and masterful and these 
characteristics are being manifested in my thinking, 
feeling and acting.” Many other suggestions can be 
formed by the reader. 

6. To produce success . Success is not a thing of 
change. It is just as definite a result from the observ¬ 
ing of certain laws as is any result in nature or in the 
realm of mind. He who thinks failure will eventually 
realize failure. The thinking leads to action and they 
are so related that action is the product of the think¬ 
ing. There is no luck or chance in this world, every¬ 
thing is governed by law. The old superstition that 
certain things may come to one irrespective of what he 
thinks or does is gradually dying. People are finding 
out that nothing occurs in this universe but in accord¬ 
ance with laws that God has established. This is true 
of everything and therefore is true of all real success. 
Shrewd manipulation may enrich a man, but eventually 
he will find his level and his mistake. Emerson in 
his wonderful Essay on Compensation has proven this 
fact. The first and greatest element of success is the 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied 77 

attitude and thought of the mind. There are other 
elements entering into the complete realization of 
success but the mental attitude and the mind’s thought 
are the elements that are primary. If doubts and 
difficulties arise they can be overcome by the use of 
autosuggestion. It can call out all of the wisdom, 
strength and power of the mind so that the doubts 
will be dissolved and the difficulties can be overcome 
and removed. The holding of a picture of success in 
the mind and also seeing the processes of its accom¬ 
plishment will do more, than one thinks at first, to 
bring about a realization of success. The author has 
been surprised at the number of successful business 
men who, in their thinking, have held the picture of 
success and the processes of realization in their minds. 
Space does not admit of illustrations, but if anyone 
will take the pains to inquire of such men he will find 
a definite confirmation of the statement above. 

Exercises. “I shall be successful in whatever I 
undertake.” “All the wisdom and the power of my 
mind will manifest in this undertaking.” “I am 
strong, vigorous and active and I am ready to do what 
is before me.” “My mind thinks success and will 
realize success.” These are illustrations of autosug¬ 
gestions that can be used and the reader and student 
can frame many more and some also for specific work 
in which they are engaged or that they expect to 
undertake. 


CHAPTER V 


Suggestion and Autosuggestion Applied to 
Adverse Conditions 

1. To thoughts of failure . No truer words were 
ever penned or spoken than those in the Proverbs 
“As a man thinketh in his heart (mind) so is he.” 
This is really a law in the realm of human life. Many 
people have not fully understood it nor have they 
applied it practically to life’s problems. If they had 
done so there would be a far different condition mani¬ 
fested in their lives. No one can continually think of 
failure and of being a failure without eventually becom¬ 
ing a failure. There is nothing equal to autosug¬ 
gestion applied definitely to prevent failure and to 
turn that into success. There are numerous records 
showing that hopeless conditions have been and can be 
changed, and failures can be changed into successes. 
If thoughts of adversity, failure, fear and similar 
conditions control the mind corresponding results will 
follow in the life. We have seen persons who have 
been skeptical as to what they could do, changed into 
forceful, energetic, successful men. The adverse 
thoughts have been changed by suggestion. Thoughts 
of failure cannot produce success any more than turnip 
seed can produce apples. Like produces like in the 
78 


Suggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 79 

moral, spiritual and physical realms. The thoughts 
one thinks and the results of these thoughts will 
sooner or later be manifested in one’s life and they 
will produce a harvest of good or evil according 
to the nature of the thoughts. It takes people a long 
while to see this truth. 

Psychology brings to us the principles of thought 
control and manifestation, the development of benefi¬ 
cial and helpful habits, and the utilization of the 
nervous system as a necessary and helpful instrument 
by which to receive impressions from the external 
world and by motor impulses properly express them in 
action and helpfulness to others and to one’s self. 
This requires sane, original, and healthful thinking 
and the prevention of unhealthy and wrong thoughts 
and emotions arising, much less manifesting them¬ 
selves. This attitude of mind leads to right conduct 
and to healthy nervous reactions and to the laying of 
a deep, firm foundation for continuous counteraction 
of failure. 

Right thinking has truth, love, and sincerity as a 
foundation of right action and with the idealization of 
success in a definite manner, through visualization, suc¬ 
cess will be a permanent and masterful expression 
of the life. If one will make positive suggestions of 
success, mastery, strength and realization, it is utterly 
impossible for failure to manifest. Think success, 
picture it and carry out all the principles that are 
mentioned above and there will be success and not 
failure. 

Some people anticipate failure and expect success. 


80 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

How, they cannot tell, but they nope by some turn in 
the wheel of life they may draw a lucky number. The 
thought of failure goes on working until other thoughts 
of a similar nature combine and the fruit of it all 
results in dismal failure and loss. When the real 
truth of approaching calamity became apparent all the 
forces gathered together could not stay the calamity. 
One thing after another seemed to slip like cogs in a 
wheel and by and by the horrible truth had to be con¬ 
fronted that the thoughts of failure led to its reali¬ 
zation. That realization was made more terrible 
because all the efforts put forth to stay the calamity 
seemed to bring the actuality more speedily. The com¬ 
bined actions to prevent the failure were only tempo¬ 
rary in staying it. It was like stopping an opening in 
a dam, it was stopped for a little while, but when the 
floods pressed against the opening it and the surround¬ 
ing structure went out. To think failure is to eventu¬ 
ally produce failure. 

There is one truth that all persons ought to hear 
with thunderous tones; namely, The attitude of mind 
more than what we do determines our success or failure 
in life. What one does is usually the result of what 
one thinks. So primarily the mind’s thinking deter¬ 
mines one’s success or failure. 

The greatest power that can be used to change the 
thought of failure is autosuggestion given in a very 
definite manner. The newness of such a method and 
practice may cause doubt in the reader’s mind but that 
doubt will be quickly changed if a definite and persist¬ 
ent effort is made. Many persons do not know how 


Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 81 

to proceed with this work. The first step is to thor¬ 
oughly relax the body so as to equalize the circulation 
and release the venous blood from the brain. The 
second step is to relax tension in the body and mind 
so that one does not care to move nor to think about 
anything particularly. When the relaxation is com¬ 
plete the body will feel perfectly comfortable and the 
mind will be quiescent and open to receive suggestions. 
The suggestions must be definite and continuously 
given for a few minutes in a whisper with a move¬ 
ment of the lips. There must be also the mental 
attitude of success. The desire must back up this 
attitude with the thought that one will be victor and 
master in the fullest sense. 

Here are a few suggestions that may be used. The 
reader can form others and use them. 

“I am strong in mind and I w T ill realize success.” 

“I am master of myself and I can do all that is 
necessary for me to do.” 

“I am positive and nothing can prevent my getting 
the best out of life.” 

“I can do all things through Christ who strength- 
eneth me.” 

“All things are possible to him that believeth.” 

“Day by day I shall be successful.” 

“I will think and desire success.” 

“I will refuse to think about failing.” 

“Every day, in every way, I am successful.” 

2. Worry. This is a demon of torment that steals 
one’s comfort, pleasure and strength. It is almost a 
universal condition of humanity and worry has done 


82 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

more to produce adverse conditions, nervousness and 
dissatisfaction than any other state of mind excepting 
that of fear. Worry is a child of fear and these two 
conditions of mind have produced more misery, mis¬ 
chief and calamity in life than anything else. The 
original parent of fear is sin and of course that is the 
fountain head of all the sorrow, misery and calamity 
in this world. We shall deal with worry particularly 
and look at some of the causes that produce it. (1) 
One physical cause that lies back of worry is wrong 
breathing. Deep breathing favors a healthy state 
of the brain whilst shallow breathing leaves the blood 
impoverished, the brain weakened and the whole body 
in an unnourished condition. As a rule all persons 
who worry are shallow breathers. This kind of 
breathing favors the “blues” and a feeling of depres¬ 
sion and of being out of tune with everybody. 

(2) Another physical cause is a congested brain 
and engorged blood-vessels associated with a torpid 
liver. Some one has asked the question “Is life worth 
living?” The answer given is, “It depends in the 
liver,” and that is true in more senses than one. This 
condition of body produces a sluggish out-of-sort feel¬ 
ing that eventually leads to the thought that life is 
not worth living. 

(3) Worry also produces these conditions referred 
to, and they produce worry and thus a vicious circle 
is formed. It is a well-known fact in physiology that 
worry and anxiety have a tendency to raise the blood 
pressure. 

(4) There are many other things that cause worry. 


Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 83 

The intense and strenuous way of living puts an extra 
tax on the nerves; looking back on the past; looking 
forward to the future; temper; anger; hatred; mental 
inactivity; fears; superstitions; obsessions; anticipa¬ 
tions; a “run down” and a “wound up” condition; 
sickness; social relations and engagements; business, 
too much and too little; and a multitude of other 
things all lead to worry. Can these things be changed, 
can worry be cured or driven out of the life? Yes. 
How? 

1. By deep breathing the blood can be oxygenized, 
the blood stream can be cleansed; the brain can be 
strengthened and the whole physical organism can be 
made strong and vigorous. That is very necessary 
on the physical side. One cannot expect that the brain 
as an instrument of the mind can do its best work in 
carrying thoughts of the mind, and manifesting clearly 
thoughts of power, victory and mastery unless it is in 
good physical condition. The laws of health must be 
observed on the physical side in order to keep the 
body in a perfectly healthy and normal condition. 

2. By keeping the mind in a positive state. Worry 
is the product of a negative condition. Say strongly 
and positively “I can and I will conquer worry.” “It 
cannot master me.” “I will conquer worry and put 
it out of my mind.” “I will not fear or worry.” 
Repeat these suggestions many times. Read the 
ninety-first Psalm and make it a personal matter with 
yourself. 

3. By avoiding anxiety and fear you will be able 
to master your worry and supplant it with confidence, 


84 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

trust and mastery. The work must not be half¬ 
hearted but with a strong desire and positive determi¬ 
nation that you will conquer. 

3. Fear . This is an intangible, unreal, and yet a 
destructive condition of mind. It irritates, depresses, 
and unnerves one. It is, in its manifestation, scaring 
one’s self and driving away courage, happiness and 
joy from one’s life. It frightens, depresses the vital 
functions, interferes with the circulation of the blood, 
it produces disease and through the solar plexus pro¬ 
duces the most sickening feeling. It is like worry a 
negative condition which attracts to itself everything 
adverse. Even the senses may be dulled or made 
hypersensitive so that hallucinations, visions, voices, 
odors, tastes and wrong interpretations of sensations 
occur. The mind under the power of fear may become 
panicky, distressed or excited, the perceptions, emo¬ 
tions, images may be utterly distorted. The mind 
becomes uncertain in its decisions, there is mental hes¬ 
itancy and the ability to reason is interfered with on 
account of it. It is useless to try to reason with a per¬ 
son who is under its bondage. He will be irritated and 
will not heed what you say. 

One good way to deal with fears is to cease to 
resist them. Resistance produces tension of mind 
and body and that condition will make them seem 
greater than ever. If one will say to fear “Come on 
and do your worst, I am not afraid of you or of any¬ 
thing. You are only a shadow and you can’t harm 
me. I am enwrapped in the Infinite power and you 
cannot hurt me. Come on and do your worst and 


Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 85 

you will find me strong and masterful,” he will master 
his fears. One who has been under that power, if he 
will repeat these or similar suggestions, he will feel 
an almost magical strength, and if he is relaxed in 
mind and body he may, as some have been, be relieved 
of the fears that have been tormenting and scaring 
them. If one will invite them to do their worst he 
will do two things: (1) Prove that they cannot hurt 
him, and (2) Put himself in a good mental attitude 
to conquer them. 

The conscious feeling of fear can be met and con¬ 
quered by courage, the other phases can be mastered 
and exorcised by suggestions of power, courage and 
victory. The effect of fear on the body, its functions 
and organs, is manifested through the tenth or pneu- 
mogastric nerves which go to nearly every organ of 
the body. The weakest organ will receive the great¬ 
est effect. There must be a summoning of the latent 
power in the subconscious mind and the use of it by 
suggestion to counteract and destroy the fear-thought 
that is working against one’s best interests. Let me 
warn the reader to never say “I have lost my will,” 
but say “My will is strong and I am completely master 
over myself and I am courageous.” Repeat this many 
times and burn it into your subconscious mind. Make 
other health-producing suggestions and desire intensely 
their realization. 

It is not my purpose to mention the different kind 
of fears that people have as the less said about them 
the better off they are. The best plan is to avoid 
thinking and talking about them. Think and talk of 


86 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

the opposite characteristics of the mental life, such as 
courage, victory, mastery and power and fill the sub® 
conscious mind with such suggestions and fears cannot 
remain. 

People who have many fears as a usual thing have 
lost their faith in God’s presence and protection. To 
get a realization of those manifestations will usually 
banish it very speedily. “I will fear no evil for thou 
art with me.” Picture the statement that Paul makes 
in Acts 17:28 f.c. “In Him we live and move and 
have our being,” and see that as an actual condition 
of your life. 

There are some things that you can do that will 
greatly assist in conquering fear. 1. Be willing to 
endure what comes if you cannot help it. This will 
remove resistance and tension. 2. If you can help 
what comes, do so with a will and determine that you 
will succeed in whatever you undertake. 3. Take 
time to idealize the thought of living, moving and 
having your being in God and then realize it. (4) 
Fear and courage are opposites, so cultivate the latter, 
and do the very things you are afraid to do. Do 
you fear the dark? Go out into it and know that 
there is nothing to hurt you. Do seven times or more 
whatever you fear to do, and it will leave you. 

Suggestions to use. “I am becoming free from 
fear.” “I am filled with love and perfect love casteth 
out fear.” “Fear is intangible and a product of my 
thought and I can change it.” “There is no reality 
in fear.” “I am filled with courage.” “As life is 
stronger than death, so courage is stronger than fear.” 


Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 87 

“I am and I will be courageous.” “All the fears in 
the world cannot hurt me.” “I can go anywhere and 
do anything that I ought to do.” “I am strong, mas¬ 
terful and courageous.” Many other suggestions can 
be formed and used. 

4. Insomnia and other conditions . There are a 
number of things that have a tendency to prevent one 
sleeping and producing the condition of insomnia. 
Overexertion and fatigue will produce that effect if 
they are kept up too long. Disturbances like over¬ 
anxiety, bad news, reverses in fortune, distress at dis¬ 
appointments, and many things of a similar nature. 
Worries of different kinds and thinking about the 
things that worry. 

We hear a person say “I was too tired to sleep last 
night.” That thought produced weariness in the body, 
the memory of which produced more weariness and 
eventually by repetition sleeplessness followed. In 
the day-time the nerve tension is augmented by hurry 
that produces fatigue and the nerves commenced to 
revolt and insomnia results. When one knows how 
to conserve his strength; when he knows how to quit 
work, he will be able to master sleeplessness. It is a 
good plan to impress the mind with the thought of 
being able to sleep and that when one lies down the 
body will relax, the circulation will equalize, the brain 
will be freed of venous blood and will be nourished and 
strengthened with arterial blood, then rest will come 
and he will feel sleepy. This will relieve fatigue and 
bring on sleep. 

The unwillingness to be awake will produce wake- 


88 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

fulness. That state of mind will cause one to toss 
about, fret, and worry because he does not sleep. 
The work of the following day will mentally begin, 
then the thought that he cannot do his work if he 
does not sleep will arise in the mind. 

This state of mind leads him to try every expedient 
that can be recalled in order to lead to sleep. Sheep 
counting, faggot moving, monotonous droning and 
many other things will be tried, followed by the oppo¬ 
site result. He becomes wider awake. Eventually he 
fastens on himself that horrid state of insomnia. 

The physical cause of sleeplessness is too much blood 
in the brain. Complete relaxation is the remedy for 
that. There must be release of tension in body and 
mind. 

One of the most effective things to do when you 
cannot sleep is to become indifferent about it. Sug¬ 
gest “rest’’ in order to get ready to sleep. Think 
about breathing and breathe quietly and deeply with 
very little effort. Relax the body completely, and, if 
hungry, eat some easily digested food. Avoid coffee, 
alcoholic drinks and things that will have a bad after¬ 
effect and, above all things, avoid drugs that have a 
narcotic effect on the body. Lying in an unaccustomed 
position is very effective with some people in bringing 
on a sleepy feeling. Expecting to sleep and holding 
a picture of going to sleep and being sound asleep will 
greatly help in breaking up insomnia. 

It is a good plan to go out in the morning and lift 
the chest and take in a number of deep breaths and 
walk briskly for five minutes or more. This will pre- 


Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 89 

pare one for the day’s work. Do not tax the mind 
with hard studies or reading at night, but with some 
kind of light, cheerful reading or funny stories. Do 
not take your work or worry with you to bed; leave 
such things outside of your bedroom door. Some little 
time before retiring yawn and impress the mind with 
the thought of being very sleepy. Say “I will sleep, 
I need sleep. I shall sleep. I am getting so sleepy.” 
Yawn frequently and make suggestions like the above 
to yourself. Take a few light exercises that will draw 
the blood from the brain and warm the feet. One can 
let his head drop on the chest while in a sitting posi¬ 
tion, close his eyes, let his body drop towards his lap 
and lazily inhale deep breaths. Repeating this will 
greatly assist in impressing on the mind a drowsy and 
sleepy feeling. Clear the mind of any wrong feeling 
against another and say “He giveth His beloveth 
sleep.” Persist in doing what is stated and you will 
master insomnia. (See Chapter YII for formula for 
insomnia.) 

Other Conditions. 

Space will not permit the consideration of many 
diseases or ailments, so that certain typical ones only 
will be considered. 

1. Stomach trouble. It is surprising how this con¬ 
dition can be controlled when one goes at it in the 
right way. Autosuggestion Is a great aid in the recov¬ 
ery from this state. Care, of course, must be observed 
in choosing the right kind of foods, and probably 
masticating them, and to choose foods that will digest 


90 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

in about the same time. When one eats foods that 
digest at different periods of time there is a liability 
that stomach trouble will be continued instead of being 
abated. For instance, persons frequently eat one 
article of food that may digest in a very short time 
like soup, then a food that digests in thirty minutes, 
then one that digests in an hour, then one that digests 
in an hour and a half, one in two hours, one in three 
hours. It is surprising how many people act unwisely 
in this respect. The food which takes the longest time 
to digest may be left in the stomach for hours and 
even for one or two days and the distress frequently 
produced in this way is serious. Care must be exercised 
in choosing foods that will digest in nearly the same 
time or the use of a mono-diet for awhile will be help¬ 
ful in relieving stomach trouble. 

In order to get help from autosuggestion for this 
trouble a person ought to lie down and close his eyes 
and thoroughly relax. Let him determine that every 
suggestion he makes to his subconscious mind will be 
fixed in the mind, be printed there and will incite the 
mind to definite action so that the fluids of the stomach 
will do their work and all the vital power under the 
control and direction of the subconscious mind will be 
used. Laying the hand on the stomach, after rubbing 
the hands together vigorously and warming them, will 
assist in creating new energy through the mind. A 
vivid picture of the stomach and its action will greatly 
assist. Then the person ought to say that “I shall 
feel hungry at meal time and I will enjoy the food 
and it will digest readily and assimilate. It is so good 


Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 91 

to have something to eat. I eat and enjoy every meal. 
I will not overeat. I will think and talk about pleas¬ 
ant things at my meals. I will laugh and enjoy myself. 
I shall thoroughly masticate every mouthful of food 
and see that it is semi-liquid so that it will be easily 
and pleasurably swallowed. I shall have no distress, 
or pain, no discomfort nor trouble of any kind in my 
stomach or intestines. The assimilation will be per¬ 
fect and the elimination of the residuum will occur 
regularly every morning after breakfast. The bowels 
will move perfectly and regularly without the use of 
any medicine. My stomach trouble will decrease 
more and more and I shall be rid of it.” 

“My sleep will be sound and recuperative and my 
stomach will receive new strength from the nerves 
that are strengthened during my rest. They will be 
charged with new power like a battery and they will 
be under the control of the subconscious mind and do 
their work normally and carry power to the solar 
plexus and all the organs of the body. My sleep will 
be restful, calm and dreamless. I shall awaken every 
morning feeling hopeful, well and happy. The feel¬ 
ings of depression that I have had will pass away and 
worries will leave me and all kinds of fears and antici¬ 
pations of harm and danger will be things of the past.” 
These and other suggestions will give a relief that 
will be surprising. 

One can take each organ like the liver, lungs, heart 
and kidneys and follow the same method and secure 
to himself great comfort and recovery from serious 
conditions and ailments. One thing ought to be 


92 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

observed, and must be, in order to get permanent and 
remarkable results. It is this: Hold a picture of the 
organ and its regular working state and see it excited 
into action by the vital forces directed to it by the 
subconscious mind. If one lays his warmed hand or 
hands on or over the organs being treated, with a 
vivid picture in mind of new activity, he will get very 
definite and remarkable results. It is a good plan to 
get a book with anatomical plates and locate the dif¬ 
ferent organs as this will make visualization of the 
organs, their location and activity very much easier. 
Splendid results will be secured by using the name of 
the organ like the lungs, if one breathes easily and 
deeply and will say “Every day I breathe deeply and 
every cell in my lungs is growing stronger and the 
gases, oxygen and carbon-dioxide are being exchanged, 
the oxygen is going into the blood and purifying it and 
the carbon-dioxide is being thrown out.” It will be 
a good exercise to exhale several times and not inhale 
at first, when you awake in the morning. After exhal¬ 
ing for a short time by expelling the air from your 
lungs through the open mouth, then inhale through 
the nose only and fill the lungs and then exhale through 
the nose. Another good practice is to breathe through 
one nostril and then close that nostril by gentle pres¬ 
sure by the finger and exhale through the nostril held 
closed when you breathed. Alternate this exercise 
for it is very valuable in many respects. 

It is a valuable exercise to get into the knee-chest 
position and let the contents of the abdominal part of 
the body be thrown upward. The effect is very 


Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 93 

decided and the benefit very great. Use suggestion 
with a quiet determination and intention of reaching 
any abnormal conditions in your bodily organs. 

Constipation can be cured by a few definite exer¬ 
cises and suggestions. Lay the hand on the ascend¬ 
ing colon, transverse and descending colon and suggest 
that the peristaltic action of those three sections of 
the colon will be active and that the bile and pancreatic 
fluid will pass into the intestines and will assist in the 
digestion and produce better peristaltic action and will 
cause the bowels to move regularly and completely. 
The modified form of Coue’s formula will also help— 
“Every day, in every way, I am getting better and 
better.” Repeat this often. Never less than seven 
times. The subconscious mind controls every organ 
and if it is impressed in a general way by a gen¬ 
eral suggestion like that one just given it will go 
to work through the vital forces of the body and help 
every organ. Believing that you are going to get 
results will help you to get them. Say to yourself 
“I can and I will get results, recover from my ail¬ 
ments, be master of myself.” 

The more quiet you are, and with the whispered 
or low soothing tone of voice, with the picture re¬ 
ferred to in your mind, the more wonderful will be 
the consequences. The nearer one gets to the place 
or feeling that he does not care to move or think 
that is the time that suggestions can get into the sub¬ 
conscious mind easiest. 

There is not a condition manifested in the human 


94 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

body that cannot be modified and in many cases can 
be cured by suggestion. 

When trying to cure bodily ailments there are sev¬ 
eral physical requirements that must be observed. 
There are three at least. Drinking plenty of water to 
keep the body cleansed and refreshed, plenty of good 
pure air to breathe and breathing it deeply into the 
lungs, plenty of good food, well-prepared and thor¬ 
oughly masticated and assimilated. These are es¬ 
sentials to health in order to maintain it, and to assist 
in a large measure to regain it, if it is lost. The mind 
has a remarkable influence on the body and if good, 
healthful suggestions and ideas can be gotten into it 
and realized great benefits will result. If it were 
necessary to illustrate the influence of the mind on 
the body it would not be a difficult task. Imagine 
that you are squeezing lemon juice into the mouth or 
sucking a lemon and see how quickly the teeth seem 
to be set on edge, or think of a dainty delicacy that 
you like and notice the increase of saliva in the mouth, 
or a disgusting sight or poorly prepared food how 
they steal away one’s appetite; or sudden, shocking 
news may produce death, or worry, fear, grief or 
nervousness, etc., and may undermine the health. Let 
one imagine that he has swallowed a fly or a bug, or 
a worm with his food and the feeling of revulsion 
may lead to expulsion. 

Sickness has been produced by the mind and it can 
be cured in the same way. Autosuggestion has been 
a very effective power to relieve many adverse condi¬ 
tions and it can produce them also. 


Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 95 

If thoughts and feelings are perfectly harmonious 
with the real self, health results; if not, then disease 
results. Thinking thoughts that are evil, being out 
of harmony with all that is good, true and beautiful 
will bring adverse conditions, the results of which 
none can tell. Fill the life with light and darkness 
will be dispelled; fill it with peace and war will cease 
in one’s nature; fill it with harmony and love, and 
discord and hatred cannot remain; fill it with good 
and evil cannot abide in it. 

The reader must remember that he can fill his mind 
with courage or fear; with worry or confidence; with 
selfishness or generosity; with harmony or discord; 
with hope or despair; with life or death. Thinking 
health, happiness, joy, love, and power and those 
things will develop in the life, and thinking the op¬ 
posite things will develop a corresponding ill effect 
in the whole personality. Affirm and picture yourself 
as the embodiment of those positive characteristics 
and act them out and very rapidly they will be 
realized. 

For success one can affirm and picture himself in 
an atmosphere where all forces co-operate for suc¬ 
cess and prosperity. Affirm victory, mastery and 
power. 

For a positive state of mind affirm and picture your¬ 
self strong, active and positive. See negative condi¬ 
tions falling back and out of the thinking. “All my 
thinking, feeling and actions are positive and I will 
not permit negative conditions to assert themselves.” 

For fearlessness affirm and picture courage, mas- 


96 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

tery and victory. “I am positively fearless and cour¬ 
age is in my life to make me strong and masterful.” 
“I am enwrapped in the Infinite Presence and no harm 
can befall me.” 

For mastery see yourself realizing perfect victory 
over passions, emotions, temper and adverse condi¬ 
tions. Affirm this and visualize those things in your¬ 
self. 

For calmness affirm “I am not disturbed by adverse 
conditions, false reports, worry or fears or by things 
that may occur.” 

For cheerfulness say “I am cheerful, radiant and 
happy, full of hope and good feeling for everybody. 
Discouragement, gloom and impatience have no place 
in my life. I am full of joy and cheer.” 

For self-control affirm and picture strength, power 
and victory. “I control my mind and its thinking, 
my heart and its affections, my will and its volitions, 
my body and its powers, my passions and their mani¬ 
festations, my whole life and its unfoldings. I have 
poise, calmness and perfect quietness as the result of 
my self-control and because I abide in the Infinite 
Spirit.” 

The above are sample autosuggestions that can be 
used, modified and changed as one may desire to ap¬ 
ply them. Many others can be formed and the briefer 
they are the better. The longer ones can be broken 
up into three or four sentences. The more graphic 
and yivid one makes his autosuggestions the more 
effectively and speedily will he get results. Repetition 
will help anchor them. Any condition of life that you 


Autosuggestion Applied to Adverse Conditions 97 

want to change, any habit you want to break, any 
disease or ailment you want to cure, and any char¬ 
acteristic you want to develop—all of these and many 
other things can be done by the aid of definite graphic 
and positive autosuggestion. Try it and you will be 
convinced. 


CHAPTER VI 


Personal Methods Proven Effective 

The appeal made to the mind of another person 
becomes more effective if the personal experience of 
the one making the appeal has been productive of 
good results. When a speaker says “I have practiced 
certain methods of suggestion that have kept me in 
good physical and mental condition and that they have 
produced lasting and remarkable results in the per¬ 
sonality,” the tendency of the hearer, as well as his 
desire, is to try those methods for his own benefit if 
he can find out what they are. A personal testimony 
has also the advantage of a statement of success or 
failure in it. The former appeals as a method of help 
and the latter as a warning against doing certain 
things. 

The methods presented in this chapter have been 
tried out by the author and as far as he knows they 
are original in form of presentation. He has used 
suggestions in the form presented here for a number 
of years. The appeal has been to the physical, mental 
and spiritual sides of the personality. 

He has used general suggestions also but evident 
results have been slower in manifestation. There are 
certain general suggestions which have a modifying 


98 


Personal Methods Proven Effective 99 

influence on the bodily organs and their functions. 
One can say “I am strong, vigorous, and healthy,” 
and secure in time such a manifestation generally but 
the more rapid effects are secured by suggesting or 
saying those things to the different organs of the 
body. This is also true of the Coue formula—“Day 
by day, rn all respects I get better and better” or the 
modification which I suggest, “Every day, in every 
way, I am getting better and better.” That is a gen¬ 
eral statement and may be made very effective if one 
will emphasize different parts of the statement as he 
repeats it a number of times. “In every way” is com¬ 
prehensive and the subconscious mind having control 
of the vital functions and organs of the body the 
effect may sometimes be remarkable in some organs 
especially if they have not been doing their work as 
they should and if an abnormal condition has de¬ 
veloped that phase of mind may produce a very won¬ 
derful change for the better. 

The suggestion “I am strong, healthy and vigorous” 
will call into action the mind to realize this in the 
whole being. If there is visualization and definite 
intention the effects of that suggestion will be mani¬ 
fested sooner or later. Autosuggestion works rather 
slowly so that many people seem to get very little re¬ 
sult and frequently give it up saying that there is 
nothing in it. If they were to comply fully with the 
conditions, and deliberately and definitely suggest 
those things to the subconscious mind, results would 
eventually manifest themselves in an actual realiza¬ 
tion in the body and mind. So many people lack the 


100 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

power of persistence and because they do not see re¬ 
sults immediately they become discouraged and con¬ 
demn the whole thing. One thing ought to be 
understood and that is that we have not yet gone 
very far in the utilization of this new power which 
can work such marvelous changes in man’s body and 
mind. Many think, and others say, that the power 
of suggestion is almost unlimited in application and 
possibilities in relation to every phase of life. It has 
been said that hetero- and autosuggestion can ac¬ 
complish great things in recovering people from func¬ 
tional troubles and diseases, but cannot do much in 
organic conditions. The conviction is growing in the 
minds of practitioners and students of this practice 
that suggestion can help to modify very greatly organic 
states and in some cases can effect a cure. Organic 
conditions are functional in an advanced stage. 

Different practitioners may claim for their prac¬ 
tice certain virtues and they may try to substantiate 
their claims by results secured. One answer can be 
truthfully given to those claims, and it is that each 
method has an element of truth in it which keeps it in 
operation and effective as a method. 

The personal methods given here have proven ef¬ 
fective in producing splendid results and all that is 
promised is that everyone who honestly and per¬ 
sistently tries them out will get results. Anyone can 
prove this for himself. 

It will be necessary to repeat a few things found in 
several places in this book. 

1. The whole body must be relaxed. Relax each 


Personal Methods Proven Effective 101 

part until you can relax the whole body with one 
effort. 

The relaxation ought to be so complete that there 
will be no desire to move the body or to think. A 
good plan to secure the relaxation is to lift and drop 
the right arm several times as though there is no life 
in it when it drops, the same method with the left 
arm, the right leg, the left, then the back muscles, 
neck, head and face, the chest and abdomen. Go 
over the body in this manner until you feel that you 
are thoroughly relaxed. 

2. Holding a mental picture in the mind of com¬ 
plete, thorough, deep relaxation of all the muscles 
of the body and especially of the deeper ones. The 
more vividly the picture is formed and realized the 
more perfect the relaxation will be. Hold the picture 
for two or three minutes. Suggest that you will not 
care to move or think. 

3. Use general suggestions for a few moments like 
those given already in this chapter. Whisper the 
suggestions with the lips moving and visualize the 
whole body responding. 

4. You are now ready to use specific and definite 
suggestions for the different organs and parts of the 
body. (Get a clear idea in mind of the location of 
the different organs and of the different parts you 
want to affect favorably if there is an abnormal or 
diseased condition. Any good works on anatomy and 
physiology have excellent cuts in which the locations 
of all the organs are plainly presented.) After you 
have in mind a good picture of the location of the 


102 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

different organs then rub your hands together, if they 
are not very warm, and then lay the right hand over 
each organ as you make your suggestions either audibly 
or in a whisper. Doing this will have a tendency to 
direct the arterial blood to those organs as well as 
to call forth new activity under the direction of the 
subconscious mind through the nerves. Holding a 
mental picture of a normal state will greatly aid in 
establishing that condition. Recall the law of mental 
impression and mental picture as that will have a 
tendency to aid in the work being done. 

These personal methods have proven very effectual 
in keeping the body in a good healthy condition and 
if abnormal manifestations were present they were 
speedily changed to the normal. These methods have 
also accomplished remarkable results in patients to 
whom they have been given. All that the author re¬ 
quests is that the reader will test the methods and 
prove for himself that they are effective in securing 
results. 

Special Suggestions. 

The reason for giving some personal methods is to 
illustrate how anyone can use such methods in order 
to secure definite and lasting benefit. Only a com¬ 
prehensive outline is given but it will afford a model to 
follow and also present an opportunity to fill in any 
special suggestions which the reader desires to use in 
order to meet the peculiar conditions in his own case. 
Physical. 

After thoroughly relaxing the body and forming 


Personal Methods Proven Effective 103 

a picture in the mind of a normal state of the body, 
and closing the eyes, the work is ready to begin. The 
following suggestions are given—“I am thoroughly 
and completely relaxed and I do not care to move or 
think.” Resting a few moments, then the hands are 
rubbed together to warm them, after which the right 
hand is used when any organ of the body is mentioned 
and it is laid over it. The suggestions are continued 
as follows: “The circulation of the blood is equalized 
throughout the whole body and the venous drainage 
is complete from the extremities and from the organs 
and the venous blood is flowing to the lungs to be 
oxygenized and sent out as arterial blood to the heart 
and from there through the whole physical organism. 
Every tissue, muscle, organ and cell in the body is 
being nourished and strengthened with this red blood. 
The venous blood is flowing down from the brain and 
that organ is quiet and restful. The red blood is flow¬ 
ing up into the brain nourishing it and keeping it in 
a healthy condition. The mind is using the brain as 
its instrument and every organ of the brain is in a 
healthy state and the mind thinks, feels and acts 
through the brain as a perfect instrument.” 

“The venous blood is flowing from the mucous lin¬ 
ings of the head, from the nasal passages, from the 
pharynx, larynx, trachea, vocal cords, throat and 
lungs, the arterial blood is flowing into the mucous lin¬ 
ings of the head, into the nasal passages, into the 
pharynx, etc., nourishing everyone of them and pro¬ 
ducing a normal state.” 

(The ductless glands give out a fluid that does not 


104 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

flow into other organs directly but into the blood 
stream and it keeps the body in good condition. The 
spleen and supra-renal capsules are important organs.) 

“The arterial blood is flowing into the spleen and 
it is kept in a good, healthy condition. It is perform¬ 
ing its work and its fluid is flowing into the blood 
stream and helping to keep the body in health.” 

“The red blood flows into the supra-renal capsules 
stimulating them into normal action and the fluids 
pass into the blood stream and they are carried to 
different parts of the physical organism and keep it 
in health and vigor.” 

“The red blood also flows into the kidneys nourish¬ 
ing those organs and keeping them active and normal 
and the eliminations are complete and a feeling of 
comfort is produced and they are working perfectly. 
They are healthy, vigorous and active.” 

“The arterial blood is going to the pancreas. Its 
cells are being renewed. The organ is active and 
healthy. Its fluid is secreted in right amount and 
passed into the intestinal tract. This fluid will help to 
complete the digestion of the food and cause the 
bowels to move regularly and freely.” 

“The red blood is going into the stomach strength¬ 
ening the muscular walls, giving a stimulating effect 
and producing a perfect activity, also a proper com¬ 
bination of the digestive fluids and thus preparing the 
stomach to do perfect work. The food not digested 
in the stomach will pass on into the small intestines. 
The arterial blood flows into the stomach walls 
strengthening them and causing the peristaltic action 


Personal Methods Proven Effective 105 

to be normal and the digestion and assimilation to be 
complete.” 

“The red blood is passing into the liver stimulating 
every cell, the bile will be plentifully secreted and 
passed into the gall-bladder and from there it will 
flow freely into the intestinal tract and assist in the 
digestion and assimilation of the food and in produc¬ 
ing regular movements of the bowels.” (If there is 
constipation the reader will find considerable relief, 
if he will make the reversed letter S over the gall¬ 
bladder four or five times. He will find the gall¬ 
bladder under the end of the ninth rib just at the 
turn as the ribs are attached together. Do this exer¬ 
cise three or four times a week. If you succeed it 
may produce a looseness of the bowels for a short 
time but that will pass away. That is what is called 
emptying the gall-bladder.) 

“The arterial blood is going into the ascending 
colon assisting the peristaltic action, it is also going to 
the appendix and that organ will secrete its fluid 
normally so that it will pass into the ascending colon 
to lubricate it and to help in moving forward the con¬ 
tents of the colon.” 

“The red blood is going into the ileo-ccecle valve, 
keeping it normal, and the rhythmic action of opening 
and closing the valve and helping along the intestinal 
contents into the ascending colon will be normal and 
active.” 

“The red blood is going into the transverse and 
descending colon, assisting the peristaltic action. The 
whole intestinal and colon tracts are healthy, normal 


106 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

in action and the bowels will move regularly and com¬ 
pletely.” 

“The breathing is deep, the digestion is normal, the 
peristaltic action and the assimilation are perfect and 
the whole body feels the effect.” 

“The arterial blood is going into the heart strength¬ 
ening all the muscles and the valves. The nerves are 
normal, active and vigorous and the circulation is in 
a splendid condition. Every vital organ, every vital 
function is doing its work normally and healthfully, 
and the body is in an excellent condition.” 

Mental. 

“Mentally I am hopeful, cheerful, buoyant and 
happy. The mind is keeping the body in perfect 
health and day by day a vigorous and normal state is 
manifested on the mental side of my life.” 

Spiritual. 

“My spiritual nature is in perfect harmony with 
the Infinite Spirit and I live and move and have my 
being in that Spirit. Day by day that Spirit lives and 
moves and manifests through me. In that spiritual 
realm there is no failure but perfect success in what¬ 
ever I undertake. My whole life is enwrapped in the 
Infinite Spirit and I shall be successful in every 
respect.” 

Here the reader can insert suggestions of “No fail¬ 
ure but perfect success” in any work, plans, or pro¬ 
cedure for life. Out of the Spiritual realm comes 
the greatest success, the most remarkable progress, 
and the most wonderful realizations. 


Personal Methods Proven Effective 107 

There has been given above in outline the author’s 
method of using autosuggestion and if the reader or 
student will try out this method he can prove for him¬ 
self the effective working of the same method. Any 
modifications or special suggestions can be very easily 
inserted. 

Briefer outline. Some readers may think that 
there is too much to be done and for their benefit a 
briefer outline will be given which can be used when 
they are in a hurry. 

In the morning. Relax. Hold a picture for a 
few moments of a normal, healthy and perfect con¬ 
dition of the body, its organs and functions. Make 
the following or similar suggestions to the mind. “I 
am strong, normal and vigorous. Every organ and 
function in my body is doing its work perfectly. My 
brain is in a healthy state and it is doing its work 
thoroughly. The venous drainage from it is complete 
and the arterial blood is nourishing every part of it. 
My thinking will be clear, my volitions will be definite 
in action and my feeling will be normal. I shall do 
my work easily and well. Today will be a good day 
for I shall feel normal, active and well. My body is 
in a normal and healthy condition and my heart is 
normal in its working and my circulation is perfect. 
My stomach is digesting the food for it is perform¬ 
ing its work vigorously and completely, my liver is 
actively secreting the bile and the bile is being passed 
into the gall-bladder and from there it passes plenti¬ 
fully into the intestinal tract to aid the digestion and 
to cause the bowels to move regularly and completely. 


108 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

The lungs are breathing deeply and the blood stream 
is being purified. The pancreas is healthy and rt is 
secreting its fluid in a normal amount and the fluid is 
passing into the intestinal tract to aid the digestion 
and to keep the bowels in healthy activity.” 

“The supra-renal capsules are doing their work per¬ 
fectly and the kidneys are normal and healthy and 
they are working actively and well. The bladder is 
healthy and active and the elimination will be perfect. 
The spleen is doing its work and it is helping to keep 
the body in a normal condition. Every organ and 
every function of my body is doing its work normally 
and vigorously.” 

“On the mental side of my life I am hopeful, cheer¬ 
ful and happy. I will act so because I will feel so. 
My judgment will be good, my ideas will be clearly 
expressed, my will is strong and it will act forcefully 
when occasion requires. I shall decide questions and 
courses of action speedily and correctly. Mentally I 
am strong, vigorous and normal. 

“On the spiritual side of my life I see the reasonable¬ 
ness of being right with God and man. I live and 
move and have my being in God. He lives and moves 
and manifests through me. Great peace, wonderful 
love and marvelous power are in my life. In this 
relation to God there is no failure but perfect success 
in everything I undertake.” 

When one retires to rest, and after complying with 
the conditions as a preparation for giving and receiv¬ 
ing suggestions, he can enlarge on this last outline or 
follow the first one. Whilst the author has not given 


Personal Methods Proven Effective 109 

all he says and does, yet these two methods will greatly 
assist the one who tries to apply and secure results 
from the use of autosuggestion. It is said that “the 
proof of the pudding is in the eating” and the proof 
of what is given will be realized when anyone will 
faithfully carry out the instructions. 

Some persons ask why do I have to repeat the sug¬ 
gestions? The answer to that is, there is only one 
way to get the suggestions anchored in and manifested 
by the subconscious mind, that is by repetition. As 
a large nail usually has to have several strokes with 
the hammer to drive it in so that it will hold so repeti¬ 
tion, metaphorically is the hammer and the suggestion 
is the nail and it must be driven into the mind so that 
it will hold and produce the desired results. 

It is said that “There is no royal road to learning,” 
be that as it may, there is no easy, magical nor quick 
way to get the complete results from autosuggestion. 
When one becomes accustomed to rapid relaxation, 
picture making and realization then it becomes al¬ 
most second nature to get results readily from the 
suggestions made to the mind. Until that occurs it 
will ordinarily be slow and often tedious work. There 
must be persistence and regularity under favorable 
conditions. Probably no one has been able to repeat 
the multiplication table the first time that he has gone 
over it but by repetition and an active memory he was 
soon able to repeat it and apply it. This is true also 
of suggestion by persistent repetition it becomes part 
of the working capital of the subconscious mind and 
so the mental impression tries to express itself and 


110 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

the mental picture tries to realize itself in manifesta¬ 
tion. 

Discouragement and surrender, because one does 
not see the results immediately, is like a little boy who 
dug out a bean the next day after it was planted to 
see if it was growing. There must be time for incuba¬ 
tion, as has been stated in another chapter, so that the 
suggestion may be actualized in the life either physi¬ 
cally, mentally or spiritually. The suggestions must 
not only be planted but must be re-enforced and en¬ 
couraged to manifest in definite results in the per¬ 
sonality. That is another reason why repetition and 
favorable conditions are necessary. 

The author would be glad to hear from any per¬ 
sons who use these personal methods as to results. 
His desire is to be of help to his fellow men in all the 
reasonable ways that he can. He is not presenting 
what might be called the consequences in his own life 
but can assure the reader that the results have in many 
ways been far beyond his expectation and in some re¬ 
spects almost incredible. 


CHAPTER VII 


Some Formulae for Typical Cases 

There are certain typical cases for which I am giv¬ 
ing forms of treatment and they will serve as models 
for others. The reader can follow these and adapt 
them to his own conditions. The outline can also be 
filled in as cases require. 

I. FOR INSOMNIA 


Whisper 3 times_I shall sleep tonight. 

Softly 7 times__My sleep will be sound and restful. 


Forcefully whisper 5 times. _I am getting sleepy and I will sleep. 

Visualize yourself as sleeping and 
the delightful feeling as the 
result of sound sleep and the 
awakening after refreshing sleep. 
See yourself strong, buoyant and 
happy. 

Action . Close the eyes, pass the 
palm of the hand over the eyes 
and the forehead and suggest 
rest and comfort and refreshing 
sleep. Relax thoroughly and 
yawn several times. 

Whisper 3 times.I am so sleepy and I am going to 

sleep. 

Softly 4 times.You will sleep soundly. You are 

so sleepy. 

Move lips and whisper_I am going to sleep and I am 

relaxed. 

Get an easy position and go to sleep and you will. 

Ill 







112 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

Do not do any hard brain work after 6 P. M. 
Spend the evening in light, pleasant conversation and 
light out-door exercise. Avoid exciting games and 
amusements. Take a hot foot-bath before retiring 
and thus bring the blood down from the brain. When 
in bed—Relax, Visualize, and Whisper—“I am so 
sleepy. My sleep will be sound and refreshing. I am 
going to sleep.” In the morning give yourself similar 
suggestions for sleep that night. If you awaken in 
the night use some of the suggestions that you used 
for sleep. Make the statements positively, believing 
what you say. Make your suggestions in the present 
tense. Say—“I am going to sleep. I will sleep. I am 
so sleepy.” Yawn and go to sleep. 

An aid is to seem to hear some one say—“You are 
going to sleep.” Repeat this statement 7 times and 
also the suggestion—“You are so sleepy.’ 5 Keep this 
up until you master sleeplessness. 

The same method can be utilized in recovering one 
from loss of appetite, stomach trouble, by using sug¬ 
gestions that fit into those conditions. 

II. FOR CONSTIPATION 

At night after retiring. 


Whisper 7 times..Tomorrow morning after break. 

fast my bowels will move freely 

Softly 7 times.My bowels will move freely after 

breakfast. 


Forcefully whisper 7 times.-Tomorrow morning I shall have a 
free movement of the bowels. 
Visualize the peristaltic move¬ 
ment of the intestines and the 




Some Formula for Typical Cases 


113 


food moving through them and 
the comfortable feeling and 
relief from a good movement of 
the bowels. 

In the morning when awakening, 


Whisper 7 times-My bowels will move freely after 

breakfast. 

Softly 7 times-There will be a free and complete 

movement of my bowels. 

Aloud-1 command my bowels to move 

freely after breakfast. 


After breakfast sit down in an easy chair for a 
short time. 


Whisper 7 times_My bowels feel like moving. They 

will move right away. 

Softly 7 times-1 must go for my bowels want to 

move. 

Aloud 3 times_Your bowels will act now. 


Go at a regular time and establish a habit. Keep 
up the suggestions. Never neglect when they feel like 
moving. 

The same method can be used in case of diarrhoea. 
The suggestions will look towards stopping or slowing 
down the actions. 

III. SICK HEADACHE, NERVOUS PAINS AND 
PAINS GENERALLY 

Autosuggestion is very effective in cases of pain and 
similar conditions. Avoid medicines and especially 
Coal-Tar preparations. Be careful of your diet. Do 
not eat when very tired, rest awhile and then eat very 
slowly. Do not worry, fear or fly up in anger. 








114 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

At night after retiring, relax the whole body as 
you have been taught. 

Whisper 7 times.The sick-headache will leave me 

entirely. My nerves will be 
under control. I shall be free 
from all pain in the head. I 
will be free from sick-headache 
and pain. 

Softly 7 times.My sick-headache has gone and 

every function and organ of my 
body will do their work well. 

Aloud 4 times___I shall not have sick-headache. I 

shall be free from all pain. 

Visualize yourself as free from it 
and as you were before you ever 
had it. Be glad that you have 
found a remedy. 

Pass your hand over the forehead 
and the places of the pain and 
say “I feel so relieved and the 
headaches have gone and I shall 
be free from them.” If vomiting 
attends your headache rub the 
hands together and then move 
one or both over the stomach 
and suggest perfect digestion 
and perfect freedom from 
nausea. 

In the morning before rising. 


Aloud 4 times_You are cured of the sick-headache 

and of pain. 

Softly 7 times_You will have no more sick- 

headache. 







115 


Some Formula for Typical Cases 

Whisper 7 times-You are free from headache. 

Every organ of your body is 
working normally. 

Visualize yourself as free and 
happy because you are free from 
all headaches and pain. Think 
how good and pleasant it is to 
be free and comfortable. 


Whisper 7 times-No attack of sick-headache can 

phase me. 

Softly 7 times-The sick-headache is not coming 

back for I am free from it. 

Aloud 5 times_No, I will not have sick-headache. 

Whisper 7 times_I am free and master of myself. 


Get the mind interested in something important and 
forget the sick-headache. 

Apply the same method to Heart Trouble, Anxiety, 
Depression and vary the suggestions according to the 
requirements. 

IV. NERVOUSNESS, IMPATIENCE, ANGER AND 
PASSION 


After retiring. 


Whisper 7 times_I am calm and not nervous. 

Softly 7 times..I will not get angry. I will be 


patient. My nerves are steady 
and normal in action I am 
master of myself. 

Visualize peace, quietness, temper 
under control and complete 
mastery over the passions. 









116 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 
In the morning before getting up. 

Whisper 7 times_You are calm and masterful.. You 

are not nervous nor irritable 
but calm and normal. 

Forcefully whisper 7 times__You will not be nervous. You 

will control your temper. You 
will not get angry You have 
great control over yourself. 

Visualize friends and others talk¬ 
ing to you and that you are calm 
and composed. See yourself 
laughing at your foolish con¬ 
duct. See yourself in mastery 
and perfectly calm. 


Whisper 7 times.I am not nervous. I am calm. 

All nervousness has left me and 
I am perfectly master of myself. 

Softly 7 times.---I am so happy that I have the 

mastery over myself. 

Aloud 3 times..You are calm, masterful and 

normal and not nervous. 


These models can be used to conquer Lack of 
Energy, Fatigue, Lack of Decision and many other 
adverse conditions. 

V. FOR SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, 
BASHFULNESS AND INDECISION 

At night. 

Whisper 7 times_I am composed. I am not nervous. 

All bashfulness will pass away. 
I am courageous. I am not shy 
or nervous. I can and I will 
decide matters definitely and 
speedily. 







Some Formnlce for Typical Cases 11 7 

Softly 7 times_I am not afraid of anything or of 

any person. I am not worried. 
I am perfectly composed. I am 
master of myself. 

Aloud 5 times_I fear nothing. I am brave. I 

can face any condition and be 
master. 

Visualize yourself meeting any and 
every thing courageously and 
victoriously. 


Whisper 7 times_You fear nothing. You are a 

match for every condition, state 
and person. 

Aloud 5 times_You are bold and fearless. You 


are not timid. You are coura¬ 
geous and self-reliant. 

Visualize yourself as masterful, 
victorious and strong. Manifest 
this attitude of mind and assert 
it. 

Stage-fright, fear of public audiences and other 
things in the mind that are abnormal and distressing 
can be controlled and cast out. 

These formulae are practical and you will find help 
by using them. 






CHAPTER VIII 
Summary and Conclusion 

This brief chapter will contain statements of the 
things discussed in the previous chapters. This being 
a manual of suggestion and autosuggestion it is the 
author’s desire to make it as easy as possible for all 
who read and study this book to get the instructions, 
practices, and help in a simple form, and to easily 
comprehend them. Psychology has always been con¬ 
sidered by many persons a hard subject to understand 
and the phases of this science, presented in this manual, 
have been considered mystical and enigmatical when 
they are not so. That which everybody does—gives 
suggestions and in a measure at least carries out those 
he receives—is an every-day experience and therefore 
should not be considered difficult to understand nor to 
practice. 

The introduction presents the importance of the sub¬ 
ject under consideration. It very naturally led to the 
definition and classification of suggestion so that the 
reader could ascertain the basis of the work proposed 
and to have the key by which he could readily classify 
suggestions, no difference in what realm of life they 
might be found or offered. Autosuggestion being the 

118 


Summary and Conclusion 119 

prototype of all suggestion, if the individual is to get 
the personal benefit, he must know what it is and by 
illustration must learn how to give such suggestions to 
himself and secure the results. There are certain con¬ 
ditions that must be complied with in order to secure 
for one’s self definite and lasting benefit so these are 
discussed in a simple but definite form. To further 
illustrate the power of suggestion and autosuggestion 
and show their application the definition of suggestion 
is analyzed and then application is made to show How 
to maintain the health or restore it if it is lost; how 
to develop and maintain a state of happiness; how 
to master one’s self; how to produce success and se¬ 
cure mastery. The supreme purpose of all this is to 
develop the personality. There are many other ap¬ 
plications that could have been discussed but those 
presented will be a good working model for others 
that may be developed by the reader and the student. 

The use of suggestion and autosuggestion to con¬ 
trol adverse conditions is important because the things 
presented are the typical things in life that interfere 
with the complete and perfect development of the 
personality. Thoughts of failure will lead to failure 
if they are harbored and pictured. Worry is a tor¬ 
ment that drives some people almost into insanity 
and that must be met, conquered and cured. Fear 
has really scared some people to death and has pro¬ 
duced many of the most horrible calamities in the 
world and in individual lives. This state of mind 
can be and must be changed and cured. Insomnia 
has many little demons that dance attendance to its 


120 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

call and no one thing has caused so much personal 
uneasiness and adverse anticipations as this abnormal 
condition, unless it is fear. Serious consequences fol¬ 
low its long, unbroken continuance and suggestion 
and autosuggestion are sui generis in conquering and 
curing it. Other adverse conditions are also briefly 
considered and the remedy presented for overcoming 
them. The personal methods are given as illustra¬ 
tions to show how to apply suggestion and how to 
secure definite results. They can be looked upon as 
models for others to copy, who are of an inventive 
turn of mind, and who may be able to get even greater 
and more far-reaching results from autosuggestion 
than they may form and use. The main purpose is 
to obtain the greatest results in the life by using this 
new, potent and definite method whether it is that 
used by another or by one’s self. Autosuggestion in 
the future will be used as an effective method of heal¬ 
ing, mastering and developing one’s self and produc¬ 
ing most remarkable changes and results in the life. 
Limits cannot now be definitely set for its application 
and results. With further light and knowledge the 
effects and consequences will astonish the world as 
well as individuals who use autosuggestion. 

Briefly the preparation for using suggestion may be 
stated thus: Relax completely . Close your eyes . Pic¬ 
ture a normal condition that you desire and hold the 
picture vividly in mind and visualize the processes sug¬ 
gested. Intend that the suggestions shall he and will 
he realized. The work: Make the suggestions definite, 


Summary and Conclusion 121 

the briefer the better, and make them for definite 
organs of the body with a hand over those organs or 
affected part; definite for the mental manifestation; 
for the spiritual side of the life . Persist and do not 
become discouraged . Call the will into co-operation 
with the visualization. Suggest, visualize, realize. 
Old pictures may oppose the new ones that you desire 
to establish but keep at it and the old ones will be sup¬ 
planted by the new ones. (See definition of sugges¬ 
tion.) You will be greatly repaid in results for all 
your efforts. Cut failure out of your vocabulary and 
write success in large characters. When you com¬ 
mence to get results a mental interest will be awakened 
so that you will be led on step by step to secure other 
and greater results in the whole personality. What 
you need is not new powers but to awaken what you 
have. If you will say “I can and I will realize results” 
there will be added power. Make that statement sev¬ 
eral times before you commence the work of suggest¬ 
ing definite things. Talk to the subconscious mind 
as you would to another person, and sometimes even 
boss it, command it, compel it to do what you want 
it to do. 

Conclusion. 

This manual is for use by all who desire to get the 
best out of life and to assist in putting the best into 
it. It is designed to help those who have adverse 
conditions manifesting in themselves and to overcome 


122 Self Healing Through Autosuggestion 

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Its purpose is to show how to do this effectively and 
how to get a complete mastery over abnormal states, 
undesirable traits and adverse conditions. 

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